The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1747 or 1747?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1747?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1747| = ?
The absolute value of 1747 is the distance between 1747 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1747:
Since the distance between 1747 and 0 on a number line is 1747, we get the answer as follows:
|1747| = 1747
Note that the absolute value of 1747 can also be written as abs(1747) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1748
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