The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 742 or 742?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 742?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|742| = ?
The absolute value of 742 is the distance between 742 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 742:
Since the distance between 742 and 0 on a number line is 742, we get the answer as follows:
|742| = 742
Note that the absolute value of 742 can also be written as abs(742) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 743
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