The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9854 or 9854?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9854?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9854| = ?
The absolute value of 9854 is the distance between 9854 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9854:

Since the distance between 9854 and 0 on a number line is 9854, we get the answer as follows:
|9854| = 9854
Note that the absolute value of 9854 can also be written as abs(9854) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9855
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