The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3686 or 3686?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3686?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3686| = ?
The absolute value of 3686 is the distance between 3686 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3686:
Since the distance between 3686 and 0 on a number line is 3686, we get the answer as follows:
|3686| = 3686
Note that the absolute value of 3686 can also be written as abs(3686) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3687
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