The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3086 or 3086?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3086?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3086| = ?
The absolute value of 3086 is the distance between 3086 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3086:

Since the distance between 3086 and 0 on a number line is 3086, we get the answer as follows:
|3086| = 3086
Note that the absolute value of 3086 can also be written as abs(3086) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3087
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