The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3079 or 3079?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3079?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3079| = ?
The absolute value of 3079 is the distance between 3079 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3079:

Since the distance between 3079 and 0 on a number line is 3079, we get the answer as follows:
|3079| = 3079
Note that the absolute value of 3079 can also be written as abs(3079) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3080
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