The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2470 or 2470?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2470?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2470| = ?
The absolute value of 2470 is the distance between 2470 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2470:

Since the distance between 2470 and 0 on a number line is 2470, we get the answer as follows:
|2470| = 2470
Note that the absolute value of 2470 can also be written as abs(2470) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 2471
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