The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9879 or 9879?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9879?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9879| = ?
The absolute value of 9879 is the distance between 9879 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9879:
Since the distance between 9879 and 0 on a number line is 9879, we get the answer as follows:
|9879| = 9879
Note that the absolute value of 9879 can also be written as abs(9879) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9880
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