The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3042 or 3042?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3042?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3042| = ?
The absolute value of 3042 is the distance between 3042 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3042:
Since the distance between 3042 and 0 on a number line is 3042, we get the answer as follows:
|3042| = 3042
Note that the absolute value of 3042 can also be written as abs(3042) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3043
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