The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9940 or 9940?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9940?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9940| = ?
The absolute value of 9940 is the distance between 9940 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9940:
Since the distance between 9940 and 0 on a number line is 9940, we get the answer as follows:
|9940| = 9940
Note that the absolute value of 9940 can also be written as abs(9940) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9941
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