The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 417 or 417?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 417?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|417| = ?
The absolute value of 417 is the distance between 417 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 417:
Since the distance between 417 and 0 on a number line is 417, we get the answer as follows:
|417| = 417
Note that the absolute value of 417 can also be written as abs(417) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 418
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