The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1740 or 1740?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1740?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1740| = ?
The absolute value of 1740 is the distance between 1740 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1740:
Since the distance between 1740 and 0 on a number line is 1740, we get the answer as follows:
|1740| = 1740
Note that the absolute value of 1740 can also be written as abs(1740) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1741
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