The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3638 or 3638?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3638?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3638| = ?
The absolute value of 3638 is the distance between 3638 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3638:
Since the distance between 3638 and 0 on a number line is 3638, we get the answer as follows:
|3638| = 3638
Note that the absolute value of 3638 can also be written as abs(3638) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3639
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