The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 9999 or -9999?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -9999?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-9999| = ?
The absolute value of -9999 is the distance between -9999 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -9999:
Since the distance between -9999 and 0 on a number line is 9999, we get the answer as follows:
|-9999| = 9999
Note that the absolute value of -9999 can also be written as abs(-9999) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -9998
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