The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9838 or 9838?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9838?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9838| = ?
The absolute value of 9838 is the distance between 9838 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9838:
Since the distance between 9838 and 0 on a number line is 9838, we get the answer as follows:
|9838| = 9838
Note that the absolute value of 9838 can also be written as abs(9838) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9839
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