The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1762 or 1762?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1762?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1762| = ?
The absolute value of 1762 is the distance between 1762 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1762:
Since the distance between 1762 and 0 on a number line is 1762, we get the answer as follows:
|1762| = 1762
Note that the absolute value of 1762 can also be written as abs(1762) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1763
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