The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1779 or 1779?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1779?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1779| = ?
The absolute value of 1779 is the distance between 1779 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1779:
Since the distance between 1779 and 0 on a number line is 1779, we get the answer as follows:
|1779| = 1779
Note that the absolute value of 1779 can also be written as abs(1779) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1780
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