The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 2317 or -2317?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -2317?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-2317| = ?
The absolute value of -2317 is the distance between -2317 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -2317:

Since the distance between -2317 and 0 on a number line is 2317, we get the answer as follows:
|-2317| = 2317
Note that the absolute value of -2317 can also be written as abs(-2317) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -2316
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