The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1768 or 1768?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1768?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1768| = ?
The absolute value of 1768 is the distance between 1768 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1768:
Since the distance between 1768 and 0 on a number line is 1768, we get the answer as follows:
|1768| = 1768
Note that the absolute value of 1768 can also be written as abs(1768) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1769
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