The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3720 or 3720?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3720?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3720| = ?
The absolute value of 3720 is the distance between 3720 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3720:
Since the distance between 3720 and 0 on a number line is 3720, we get the answer as follows:
|3720| = 3720
Note that the absolute value of 3720 can also be written as abs(3720) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3721
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