The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1974 or 1974?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1974?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1974| = ?
The absolute value of 1974 is the distance between 1974 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1974:
Since the distance between 1974 and 0 on a number line is 1974, we get the answer as follows:
|1974| = 1974
Note that the absolute value of 1974 can also be written as abs(1974) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1975
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