The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9977 or 9977?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9977?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9977| = ?
The absolute value of 9977 is the distance between 9977 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9977:

Since the distance between 9977 and 0 on a number line is 9977, we get the answer as follows:
|9977| = 9977
Note that the absolute value of 9977 can also be written as abs(9977) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9978
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