The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1748 or 1748?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1748?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1748| = ?
The absolute value of 1748 is the distance between 1748 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1748:
Since the distance between 1748 and 0 on a number line is 1748, we get the answer as follows:
|1748| = 1748
Note that the absolute value of 1748 can also be written as abs(1748) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1749
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