The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1749 or 1749?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1749?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1749| = ?
The absolute value of 1749 is the distance between 1749 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1749:
Since the distance between 1749 and 0 on a number line is 1749, we get the answer as follows:
|1749| = 1749
Note that the absolute value of 1749 can also be written as abs(1749) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1750
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