The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 740 or 740?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 740?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|740| = ?
The absolute value of 740 is the distance between 740 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 740:
Since the distance between 740 and 0 on a number line is 740, we get the answer as follows:
|740| = 740
Note that the absolute value of 740 can also be written as abs(740) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 741
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