The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9874 or 9874?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9874?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9874| = ?
The absolute value of 9874 is the distance between 9874 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9874:

Since the distance between 9874 and 0 on a number line is 9874, we get the answer as follows:
|9874| = 9874
Note that the absolute value of 9874 can also be written as abs(9874) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9875
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