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During a corporate bookkeeping training session, an instructor asks the trainees to simplify two different ledger adjustments. The first is the opposite of a negative adjustment, written as (9)-(-9). The second is the absolute distance of the adjustment from zero, written as 9|-9|. Since the opposite of a negative and the absolute value of a negative both yield a positive result, both of these expressions evaluate to the exact same positive integer, which is _____.

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