The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 817 or 817?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 817?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|817| = ?
The absolute value of 817 is the distance between 817 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 817:
Since the distance between 817 and 0 on a number line is 817, we get the answer as follows:
|817| = 817
Note that the absolute value of 817 can also be written as abs(817) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 818
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