The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9995 or -9995?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9995?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9995| = ?
The absolute value of -9995 is the distance between -9995 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9995:

Since the distance between -9995 and 0 on a number line is 9995, we get the answer as follows:
|-9995| = 9995
Note that the absolute value of -9995 can also be written as abs(-9995) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9994
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