The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9978 or 9978?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9978?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9978| = ?
The absolute value of 9978 is the distance between 9978 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9978:
Since the distance between 9978 and 0 on a number line is 9978, we get the answer as follows:
|9978| = 9978
Note that the absolute value of 9978 can also be written as abs(9978) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9979
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