The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9865 or 9865?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9865?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9865| = ?
The absolute value of 9865 is the distance between 9865 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9865:

Since the distance between 9865 and 0 on a number line is 9865, we get the answer as follows:
|9865| = 9865
Note that the absolute value of 9865 can also be written as abs(9865) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9866
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