The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9876 or 9876?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9876?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9876| = ?
The absolute value of 9876 is the distance between 9876 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9876:
Since the distance between 9876 and 0 on a number line is 9876, we get the answer as follows:
|9876| = 9876
Note that the absolute value of 9876 can also be written as abs(9876) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
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