The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9989 or 9989?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9989?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9989| = ?
The absolute value of 9989 is the distance between 9989 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9989:

Since the distance between 9989 and 0 on a number line is 9989, we get the answer as follows:
|9989| = 9989
Note that the absolute value of 9989 can also be written as abs(9989) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9990
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