The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9976 or 9976?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9976?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9976| = ?
The absolute value of 9976 is the distance between 9976 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9976:

Since the distance between 9976 and 0 on a number line is 9976, we get the answer as follows:
|9976| = 9976
Note that the absolute value of 9976 can also be written as abs(9976) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9977
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