The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1776 or 1776?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1776?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1776| = ?
The absolute value of 1776 is the distance between 1776 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1776:
Since the distance between 1776 and 0 on a number line is 1776, we get the answer as follows:
|1776| = 1776
Note that the absolute value of 1776 can also be written as abs(1776) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1777
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