The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3085 or 3085?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3085?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3085| = ?
The absolute value of 3085 is the distance between 3085 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3085:
Since the distance between 3085 and 0 on a number line is 3085, we get the answer as follows:
|3085| = 3085
Note that the absolute value of 3085 can also be written as abs(3085) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3086
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