The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 74 or 74?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 74?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|74| = ?
The absolute value of 74 is the distance between 74 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 74:
Since the distance between 74 and 0 on a number line is 74, we get the answer as follows:
|74| = 74
Note that the absolute value of 74 can also be written as abs(74) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 75
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