The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8172 or -8172?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8172?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8172| = ?
The absolute value of -8172 is the distance between -8172 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8172:
Since the distance between -8172 and 0 on a number line is 8172, we get the answer as follows:
|-8172| = 8172
Note that the absolute value of -8172 can also be written as abs(-8172) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8171
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