The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9855 or 9855?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9855?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9855| = ?
The absolute value of 9855 is the distance between 9855 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9855:

Since the distance between 9855 and 0 on a number line is 9855, we get the answer as follows:
|9855| = 9855
Note that the absolute value of 9855 can also be written as abs(9855) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9856
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