The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1837 or 1837?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1837?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1837| = ?
The absolute value of 1837 is the distance between 1837 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1837:
Since the distance between 1837 and 0 on a number line is 1837, we get the answer as follows:
|1837| = 1837
Note that the absolute value of 1837 can also be written as abs(1837) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1838
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