The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3617 or 3617?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3617?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3617| = ?
The absolute value of 3617 is the distance between 3617 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3617:
Since the distance between 3617 and 0 on a number line is 3617, we get the answer as follows:
|3617| = 3617
Note that the absolute value of 3617 can also be written as abs(3617) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3618
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