The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 917 or 917?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 917?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|917| = ?
The absolute value of 917 is the distance between 917 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 917:
Since the distance between 917 and 0 on a number line is 917, we get the answer as follows:
|917| = 917
Note that the absolute value of 917 can also be written as abs(917) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 918
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