The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 973 or 973?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 973?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|973| = ?
The absolute value of 973 is the distance between 973 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 973:
Since the distance between 973 and 0 on a number line is 973, we get the answer as follows:
|973| = 973
Note that the absolute value of 973 can also be written as abs(973) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 974
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