The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8170 or -8170?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8170?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8170| = ?
The absolute value of -8170 is the distance between -8170 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8170:

Since the distance between -8170 and 0 on a number line is 8170, we get the answer as follows:
|-8170| = 8170
Note that the absolute value of -8170 can also be written as abs(-8170) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8169
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