The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9850 or 9850?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9850?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9850| = ?
The absolute value of 9850 is the distance between 9850 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9850:

Since the distance between 9850 and 0 on a number line is 9850, we get the answer as follows:
|9850| = 9850
Note that the absolute value of 9850 can also be written as abs(9850) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9851
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