The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 8688 or 8688?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 8688?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|8688| = ?
The absolute value of 8688 is the distance between 8688 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 8688:

Since the distance between 8688 and 0 on a number line is 8688, we get the answer as follows:
|8688| = 8688
Note that the absolute value of 8688 can also be written as abs(8688) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 8689
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