The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9979 or 9979?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9979?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9979| = ?
The absolute value of 9979 is the distance between 9979 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9979:

Since the distance between 9979 and 0 on a number line is 9979, we get the answer as follows:
|9979| = 9979
Note that the absolute value of 9979 can also be written as abs(9979) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9980
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