The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9840 or 9840?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9840?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9840| = ?
The absolute value of 9840 is the distance between 9840 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9840:

Since the distance between 9840 and 0 on a number line is 9840, we get the answer as follows:
|9840| = 9840
Note that the absolute value of 9840 can also be written as abs(9840) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9841
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