The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9861 or 9861?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9861?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9861| = ?
The absolute value of 9861 is the distance between 9861 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9861:

Since the distance between 9861 and 0 on a number line is 9861, we get the answer as follows:
|9861| = 9861
Note that the absolute value of 9861 can also be written as abs(9861) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9862
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