The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3718 or 3718?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3718?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3718| = ?
The absolute value of 3718 is the distance between 3718 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3718:
Since the distance between 3718 and 0 on a number line is 3718, we get the answer as follows:
|3718| = 3718
Note that the absolute value of 3718 can also be written as abs(3718) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3719
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