The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1775 or 1775?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1775?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1775| = ?
The absolute value of 1775 is the distance between 1775 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1775:
Since the distance between 1775 and 0 on a number line is 1775, we get the answer as follows:
|1775| = 1775
Note that the absolute value of 1775 can also be written as abs(1775) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1776
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