The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9956 or 9956?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9956?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9956| = ?
The absolute value of 9956 is the distance between 9956 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9956:
Since the distance between 9956 and 0 on a number line is 9956, we get the answer as follows:
|9956| = 9956
Note that the absolute value of 9956 can also be written as abs(9956) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9957
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