The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9875 or 9875?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9875?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9875| = ?
The absolute value of 9875 is the distance between 9875 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9875:

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