The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9872 or 9872?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9872?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9872| = ?
The absolute value of 9872 is the distance between 9872 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9872:
Since the distance between 9872 and 0 on a number line is 9872, we get the answer as follows:
|9872| = 9872
Note that the absolute value of 9872 can also be written as abs(9872) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9873
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