The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 1997 or 1997?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 1997?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|1997| = ?
The absolute value of 1997 is the distance between 1997 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 1997:
Since the distance between 1997 and 0 on a number line is 1997, we get the answer as follows:
|1997| = 1997
Note that the absolute value of 1997 can also be written as abs(1997) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 1998
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