The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9871 or 9871?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9871?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9871| = ?
The absolute value of 9871 is the distance between 9871 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9871:
Since the distance between 9871 and 0 on a number line is 9871, we get the answer as follows:
|9871| = 9871
Note that the absolute value of 9871 can also be written as abs(9871) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9872
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