The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9960 or 9960?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9960?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9960| = ?
The absolute value of 9960 is the distance between 9960 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9960:

Since the distance between 9960 and 0 on a number line is 9960, we get the answer as follows:
|9960| = 9960
Note that the absolute value of 9960 can also be written as abs(9960) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9961
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