The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1877 or 1877?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1877?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1877| = ?
The absolute value of 1877 is the distance between 1877 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1877:
Since the distance between 1877 and 0 on a number line is 1877, we get the answer as follows:
|1877| = 1877
Note that the absolute value of 1877 can also be written as abs(1877) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1878
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