The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9885 or 9885?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9885?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9885| = ?
The absolute value of 9885 is the distance between 9885 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9885:

Since the distance between 9885 and 0 on a number line is 9885, we get the answer as follows:
|9885| = 9885
Note that the absolute value of 9885 can also be written as abs(9885) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9886
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