The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1731 or 1731?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1731?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1731| = ?
The absolute value of 1731 is the distance between 1731 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1731:
Since the distance between 1731 and 0 on a number line is 1731, we get the answer as follows:
|1731| = 1731
Note that the absolute value of 1731 can also be written as abs(1731) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1732
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