The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9869 or 9869?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9869?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9869| = ?
The absolute value of 9869 is the distance between 9869 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9869:

Since the distance between 9869 and 0 on a number line is 9869, we get the answer as follows:
|9869| = 9869
Note that the absolute value of 9869 can also be written as abs(9869) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9870
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