The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1758 or 1758?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1758?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1758| = ?
The absolute value of 1758 is the distance between 1758 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1758:
Since the distance between 1758 and 0 on a number line is 1758, we get the answer as follows:
|1758| = 1758
Note that the absolute value of 1758 can also be written as abs(1758) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1759
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