The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 743 or 743?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 743?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|743| = ?
The absolute value of 743 is the distance between 743 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 743:
Since the distance between 743 and 0 on a number line is 743, we get the answer as follows:
|743| = 743
Note that the absolute value of 743 can also be written as abs(743) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 744
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