The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3699 or 3699?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3699?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3699| = ?
The absolute value of 3699 is the distance between 3699 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3699:

Since the distance between 3699 and 0 on a number line is 3699, we get the answer as follows:
|3699| = 3699
Note that the absolute value of 3699 can also be written as abs(3699) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3700
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