The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1736 or 1736?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1736?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1736| = ?
The absolute value of 1736 is the distance between 1736 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1736:
Since the distance between 1736 and 0 on a number line is 1736, we get the answer as follows:
|1736| = 1736
Note that the absolute value of 1736 can also be written as abs(1736) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1737
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