The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 3749 or 3749?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 3749?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|3749| = ?
The absolute value of 3749 is the distance between 3749 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 3749:

Since the distance between 3749 and 0 on a number line is 3749, we get the answer as follows:
|3749| = 3749
Note that the absolute value of 3749 can also be written as abs(3749) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 3750
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