| | The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 274 or 274? 
 When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 274?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
 
 |274| = ?
 
 The absolute value of 274 is the distance between 274 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 274:
 
 
  
 Since the distance between 274 and 0 on a number line is 274, we get the answer as follows:
 
 |274| = 274
 
 
 Note that the absolute value of 274 can also be written as abs(274) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
 
 Absolute Value of 275
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