The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9986 or 9986?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9986?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9986| = ?
The absolute value of 9986 is the distance between 9986 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9986:
Since the distance between 9986 and 0 on a number line is 9986, we get the answer as follows:
|9986| = 9986
Note that the absolute value of 9986 can also be written as abs(9986) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9987
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