The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1976 or 1976?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1976?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1976| = ?
The absolute value of 1976 is the distance between 1976 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1976:
Since the distance between 1976 and 0 on a number line is 1976, we get the answer as follows:
|1976| = 1976
Note that the absolute value of 1976 can also be written as abs(1976) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1977
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