The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1917 or 1917?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1917?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1917| = ?
The absolute value of 1917 is the distance between 1917 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1917:
Since the distance between 1917 and 0 on a number line is 1917, we get the answer as follows:
|1917| = 1917
Note that the absolute value of 1917 can also be written as abs(1917) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1918
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