The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3696 or 3696?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3696?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3696| = ?
The absolute value of 3696 is the distance between 3696 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3696:

Since the distance between 3696 and 0 on a number line is 3696, we get the answer as follows:
|3696| = 3696
Note that the absolute value of 3696 can also be written as abs(3696) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3697
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