The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9989 or -9989?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9989?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9989| = ?
The absolute value of -9989 is the distance between -9989 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9989:
Since the distance between -9989 and 0 on a number line is 9989, we get the answer as follows:
|-9989| = 9989
Note that the absolute value of -9989 can also be written as abs(-9989) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9988
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