The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3087 or 3087?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3087?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3087| = ?
The absolute value of 3087 is the distance between 3087 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3087:
Since the distance between 3087 and 0 on a number line is 3087, we get the answer as follows:
|3087| = 3087
Note that the absolute value of 3087 can also be written as abs(3087) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3088
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