The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9968 or 9968?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9968?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9968| = ?
The absolute value of 9968 is the distance between 9968 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9968:

Since the distance between 9968 and 0 on a number line is 9968, we get the answer as follows:
|9968| = 9968
Note that the absolute value of 9968 can also be written as abs(9968) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9969
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