The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9987 or -9987?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9987?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9987| = ?
The absolute value of -9987 is the distance between -9987 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9987:
Since the distance between -9987 and 0 on a number line is 9987, we get the answer as follows:
|-9987| = 9987
Note that the absolute value of -9987 can also be written as abs(-9987) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9986
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