The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9948 or 9948?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9948?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9948| = ?
The absolute value of 9948 is the distance between 9948 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9948:

Since the distance between 9948 and 0 on a number line is 9948, we get the answer as follows:
|9948| = 9948
Note that the absolute value of 9948 can also be written as abs(9948) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9949
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