The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9984 or 9984?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9984?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9984| = ?
The absolute value of 9984 is the distance between 9984 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9984:

Since the distance between 9984 and 0 on a number line is 9984, we get the answer as follows:
|9984| = 9984
Note that the absolute value of 9984 can also be written as abs(9984) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9985
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