The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9997 or -9997?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9997?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9997| = ?
The absolute value of -9997 is the distance between -9997 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9997:
Since the distance between -9997 and 0 on a number line is 9997, we get the answer as follows:
|-9997| = 9997
Note that the absolute value of -9997 can also be written as abs(-9997) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9996
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