The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9856 or 9856?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9856?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9856| = ?
The absolute value of 9856 is the distance between 9856 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9856:
Since the distance between 9856 and 0 on a number line is 9856, we get the answer as follows:
|9856| = 9856
Note that the absolute value of 9856 can also be written as abs(9856) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9857
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