The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1796 or 1796?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1796?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1796| = ?
The absolute value of 1796 is the distance between 1796 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1796:
Since the distance between 1796 and 0 on a number line is 1796, we get the answer as follows:
|1796| = 1796
Note that the absolute value of 1796 can also be written as abs(1796) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1797
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