The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9981 or 9981?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9981?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9981| = ?
The absolute value of 9981 is the distance between 9981 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9981:

Since the distance between 9981 and 0 on a number line is 9981, we get the answer as follows:
|9981| = 9981
Note that the absolute value of 9981 can also be written as abs(9981) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9982
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