The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1734 or 1734?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1734?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1734| = ?
The absolute value of 1734 is the distance between 1734 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1734:

Since the distance between 1734 and 0 on a number line is 1734, we get the answer as follows:
|1734| = 1734
Note that the absolute value of 1734 can also be written as abs(1734) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1735
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