The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1793 or 1793?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1793?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1793| = ?
The absolute value of 1793 is the distance between 1793 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1793:
Since the distance between 1793 and 0 on a number line is 1793, we get the answer as follows:
|1793| = 1793
Note that the absolute value of 1793 can also be written as abs(1793) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1794
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