The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8215 or -8215?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8215?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8215| = ?
The absolute value of -8215 is the distance between -8215 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8215:
Since the distance between -8215 and 0 on a number line is 8215, we get the answer as follows:
|-8215| = 8215
Note that the absolute value of -8215 can also be written as abs(-8215) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8214
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