The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1741 or 1741?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1741?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1741| = ?
The absolute value of 1741 is the distance between 1741 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1741:
Since the distance between 1741 and 0 on a number line is 1741, we get the answer as follows:
|1741| = 1741
Note that the absolute value of 1741 can also be written as abs(1741) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1742
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