The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1744 or 1744?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1744?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1744| = ?
The absolute value of 1744 is the distance between 1744 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1744:
Since the distance between 1744 and 0 on a number line is 1744, we get the answer as follows:
|1744| = 1744
Note that the absolute value of 1744 can also be written as abs(1744) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1745
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