The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 9998 or 9998?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 9998?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|9998| = ?
The absolute value of 9998 is the distance between 9998 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 9998:
Since the distance between 9998 and 0 on a number line is 9998, we get the answer as follows:
|9998| = 9998
Note that the absolute value of 9998 can also be written as abs(9998) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 9999
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