The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2017 or 2017?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2017?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2017| = ?
The absolute value of 2017 is the distance between 2017 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2017:
Since the distance between 2017 and 0 on a number line is 2017, we get the answer as follows:
|2017| = 2017
Note that the absolute value of 2017 can also be written as abs(2017) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2018
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