The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8158 or -8158?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8158?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8158| = ?
The absolute value of -8158 is the distance between -8158 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8158:
Since the distance between -8158 and 0 on a number line is 8158, we get the answer as follows:
|-8158| = 8158
Note that the absolute value of -8158 can also be written as abs(-8158) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8157
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