The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1797 or 1797?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1797?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1797| = ?
The absolute value of 1797 is the distance between 1797 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1797:
Since the distance between 1797 and 0 on a number line is 1797, we get the answer as follows:
|1797| = 1797
Note that the absolute value of 1797 can also be written as abs(1797) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1798
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