The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1789 or 1789?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1789?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1789| = ?
The absolute value of 1789 is the distance between 1789 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1789:
Since the distance between 1789 and 0 on a number line is 1789, we get the answer as follows:
|1789| = 1789
Note that the absolute value of 1789 can also be written as abs(1789) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1790
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