The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9991 or 9991?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9991?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9991| = ?
The absolute value of 9991 is the distance between 9991 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9991:

Since the distance between 9991 and 0 on a number line is 9991, we get the answer as follows:
|9991| = 9991
Note that the absolute value of 9991 can also be written as abs(9991) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9992
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