The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9884 or 9884?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9884?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9884| = ?
The absolute value of 9884 is the distance between 9884 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9884:

Since the distance between 9884 and 0 on a number line is 9884, we get the answer as follows:
|9884| = 9884
Note that the absolute value of 9884 can also be written as abs(9884) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9885
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