The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9842 or 9842?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9842?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9842| = ?
The absolute value of 9842 is the distance between 9842 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9842:
Since the distance between 9842 and 0 on a number line is 9842, we get the answer as follows:
|9842| = 9842
Note that the absolute value of 9842 can also be written as abs(9842) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9843
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