The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9973 or 9973?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9973?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9973| = ?
The absolute value of 9973 is the distance between 9973 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9973:

Since the distance between 9973 and 0 on a number line is 9973, we get the answer as follows:
|9973| = 9973
Note that the absolute value of 9973 can also be written as abs(9973) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9974
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