The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1739 or 1739?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1739?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1739| = ?
The absolute value of 1739 is the distance between 1739 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1739:
Since the distance between 1739 and 0 on a number line is 1739, we get the answer as follows:
|1739| = 1739
Note that the absolute value of 1739 can also be written as abs(1739) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1740
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