The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1771 or 1771?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1771?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1771| = ?
The absolute value of 1771 is the distance between 1771 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1771:
Since the distance between 1771 and 0 on a number line is 1771, we get the answer as follows:
|1771| = 1771
Note that the absolute value of 1771 can also be written as abs(1771) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1772
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