The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1791 or 1791?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1791?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1791| = ?
The absolute value of 1791 is the distance between 1791 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1791:
Since the distance between 1791 and 0 on a number line is 1791, we get the answer as follows:
|1791| = 1791
Note that the absolute value of 1791 can also be written as abs(1791) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1792
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