The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8615 or 8615?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8615?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8615| = ?
The absolute value of 8615 is the distance between 8615 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8615:

Since the distance between 8615 and 0 on a number line is 8615, we get the answer as follows:
|8615| = 8615
Note that the absolute value of 8615 can also be written as abs(8615) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8616
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