The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9996 or 9996?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9996?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9996| = ?
The absolute value of 9996 is the distance between 9996 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9996:

Since the distance between 9996 and 0 on a number line is 9996, we get the answer as follows:
|9996| = 9996
Note that the absolute value of 9996 can also be written as abs(9996) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9997
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