The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8217 or -8217?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8217?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8217| = ?
The absolute value of -8217 is the distance between -8217 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8217:
Since the distance between -8217 and 0 on a number line is 8217, we get the answer as follows:
|-8217| = 8217
Note that the absolute value of -8217 can also be written as abs(-8217) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8216
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