The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9996 or -9996?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9996?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9996| = ?
The absolute value of -9996 is the distance between -9996 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9996:
Since the distance between -9996 and 0 on a number line is 9996, we get the answer as follows:
|-9996| = 9996
Note that the absolute value of -9996 can also be written as abs(-9996) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9995
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