The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1788 or 1788?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1788?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1788| = ?
The absolute value of 1788 is the distance between 1788 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1788:
Since the distance between 1788 and 0 on a number line is 1788, we get the answer as follows:
|1788| = 1788
Note that the absolute value of 1788 can also be written as abs(1788) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1789
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