The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3609 or 3609?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3609?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3609| = ?
The absolute value of 3609 is the distance between 3609 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3609:

Since the distance between 3609 and 0 on a number line is 3609, we get the answer as follows:
|3609| = 3609
Note that the absolute value of 3609 can also be written as abs(3609) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3610
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