The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1977 or 1977?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1977?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1977| = ?
The absolute value of 1977 is the distance between 1977 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1977:
Since the distance between 1977 and 0 on a number line is 1977, we get the answer as follows:
|1977| = 1977
Note that the absolute value of 1977 can also be written as abs(1977) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1978
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