The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3040 or 3040?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3040?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3040| = ?
The absolute value of 3040 is the distance between 3040 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3040:

Since the distance between 3040 and 0 on a number line is 3040, we get the answer as follows:
|3040| = 3040
Note that the absolute value of 3040 can also be written as abs(3040) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3041
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