The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9870 or 9870?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9870?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9870| = ?
The absolute value of 9870 is the distance between 9870 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9870:
Since the distance between 9870 and 0 on a number line is 9870, we get the answer as follows:
|9870| = 9870
Note that the absolute value of 9870 can also be written as abs(9870) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9871
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