The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1787 or 1787?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1787?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1787| = ?
The absolute value of 1787 is the distance between 1787 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1787:
Since the distance between 1787 and 0 on a number line is 1787, we get the answer as follows:
|1787| = 1787
Note that the absolute value of 1787 can also be written as abs(1787) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1788
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