The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9947 or 9947?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9947?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9947| = ?
The absolute value of 9947 is the distance between 9947 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9947:
Since the distance between 9947 and 0 on a number line is 9947, we get the answer as follows:
|9947| = 9947
Note that the absolute value of 9947 can also be written as abs(9947) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9948
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