The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1738 or 1738?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1738?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1738| = ?
The absolute value of 1738 is the distance between 1738 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1738:
Since the distance between 1738 and 0 on a number line is 1738, we get the answer as follows:
|1738| = 1738
Note that the absolute value of 1738 can also be written as abs(1738) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1739
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