The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 617 or 617?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 617?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|617| = ?
The absolute value of 617 is the distance between 617 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 617:
Since the distance between 617 and 0 on a number line is 617, we get the answer as follows:
|617| = 617
Note that the absolute value of 617 can also be written as abs(617) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 618
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