The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3712 or 3712?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3712?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3712| = ?
The absolute value of 3712 is the distance between 3712 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3712:
Since the distance between 3712 and 0 on a number line is 3712, we get the answer as follows:
|3712| = 3712
Note that the absolute value of 3712 can also be written as abs(3712) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3713
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