The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3740 or 3740?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3740?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3740| = ?
The absolute value of 3740 is the distance between 3740 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3740:

Since the distance between 3740 and 0 on a number line is 3740, we get the answer as follows:
|3740| = 3740
Note that the absolute value of 3740 can also be written as abs(3740) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3741
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