The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1827 or 1827?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1827?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1827| = ?
The absolute value of 1827 is the distance between 1827 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1827:

Since the distance between 1827 and 0 on a number line is 1827, we get the answer as follows:
|1827| = 1827
Note that the absolute value of 1827 can also be written as abs(1827) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1828
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