The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 2398 or 2398?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 2398?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|2398| = ?
The absolute value of 2398 is the distance between 2398 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 2398:

Since the distance between 2398 and 0 on a number line is 2398, we get the answer as follows:
|2398| = 2398
Note that the absolute value of 2398 can also be written as abs(2398) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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