The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1785 or 1785?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1785?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1785| = ?
The absolute value of 1785 is the distance between 1785 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1785:
Since the distance between 1785 and 0 on a number line is 1785, we get the answer as follows:
|1785| = 1785
Note that the absolute value of 1785 can also be written as abs(1785) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1786
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