The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3688 or 3688?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3688?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3688| = ?
The absolute value of 3688 is the distance between 3688 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3688:
Since the distance between 3688 and 0 on a number line is 3688, we get the answer as follows:
|3688| = 3688
Note that the absolute value of 3688 can also be written as abs(3688) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3689
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