The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9847 or 9847?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9847?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9847| = ?
The absolute value of 9847 is the distance between 9847 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9847:
Since the distance between 9847 and 0 on a number line is 9847, we get the answer as follows:
|9847| = 9847
Note that the absolute value of 9847 can also be written as abs(9847) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9848
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