The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 174 or 174?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 174?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|174| = ?
The absolute value of 174 is the distance between 174 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 174:
Since the distance between 174 and 0 on a number line is 174, we get the answer as follows:
|174| = 174
Note that the absolute value of 174 can also be written as abs(174) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 175
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