The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3739 or 3739?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3739?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3739| = ?
The absolute value of 3739 is the distance between 3739 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3739:

Since the distance between 3739 and 0 on a number line is 3739, we get the answer as follows:
|3739| = 3739
Note that the absolute value of 3739 can also be written as abs(3739) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3740
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