The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8611 or 8611?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8611?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8611| = ?
The absolute value of 8611 is the distance between 8611 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8611:

Since the distance between 8611 and 0 on a number line is 8611, we get the answer as follows:
|8611| = 8611
Note that the absolute value of 8611 can also be written as abs(8611) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8612
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