The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9877 or 9877?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9877?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9877| = ?
The absolute value of 9877 is the distance between 9877 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9877:

Since the distance between 9877 and 0 on a number line is 9877, we get the answer as follows:
|9877| = 9877
Note that the absolute value of 9877 can also be written as abs(9877) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9878
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