The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1735 or 1735?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1735?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1735| = ?
The absolute value of 1735 is the distance between 1735 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1735:

Since the distance between 1735 and 0 on a number line is 1735, we get the answer as follows:
|1735| = 1735
Note that the absolute value of 1735 can also be written as abs(1735) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1736
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