The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3719 or 3719?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3719?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3719| = ?
The absolute value of 3719 is the distance between 3719 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3719:

Since the distance between 3719 and 0 on a number line is 3719, we get the answer as follows:
|3719| = 3719
Note that the absolute value of 3719 can also be written as abs(3719) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3720
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