The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9888 or 9888?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9888?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9888| = ?
The absolute value of 9888 is the distance between 9888 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9888:

Since the distance between 9888 and 0 on a number line is 9888, we get the answer as follows:
|9888| = 9888
Note that the absolute value of 9888 can also be written as abs(9888) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9889
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