The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8627 or 8627?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8627?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8627| = ?
The absolute value of 8627 is the distance between 8627 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8627:

Since the distance between 8627 and 0 on a number line is 8627, we get the answer as follows:
|8627| = 8627
Note that the absolute value of 8627 can also be written as abs(8627) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8628
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