The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3608 or 3608?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3608?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3608| = ?
The absolute value of 3608 is the distance between 3608 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3608:

Since the distance between 3608 and 0 on a number line is 3608, we get the answer as follows:
|3608| = 3608
Note that the absolute value of 3608 can also be written as abs(3608) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3609
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