The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1767 or 1767?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1767?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1767| = ?
The absolute value of 1767 is the distance between 1767 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1767:
Since the distance between 1767 and 0 on a number line is 1767, we get the answer as follows:
|1767| = 1767
Note that the absolute value of 1767 can also be written as abs(1767) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1768
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