The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9839 or 9839?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9839?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9839| = ?
The absolute value of 9839 is the distance between 9839 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9839:

Since the distance between 9839 and 0 on a number line is 9839, we get the answer as follows:
|9839| = 9839
Note that the absolute value of 9839 can also be written as abs(9839) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9840
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