The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9974 or 9974?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9974?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9974| = ?
The absolute value of 9974 is the distance between 9974 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9974:

Since the distance between 9974 and 0 on a number line is 9974, we get the answer as follows:
|9974| = 9974
Note that the absolute value of 9974 can also be written as abs(9974) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9975
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