The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9857 or 9857?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9857?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9857| = ?
The absolute value of 9857 is the distance between 9857 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9857:
Since the distance between 9857 and 0 on a number line is 9857, we get the answer as follows:
|9857| = 9857
Note that the absolute value of 9857 can also be written as abs(9857) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9858
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