The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8218 or -8218?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8218?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8218| = ?
The absolute value of -8218 is the distance between -8218 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8218:
Since the distance between -8218 and 0 on a number line is 8218, we get the answer as follows:
|-8218| = 8218
Note that the absolute value of -8218 can also be written as abs(-8218) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8217
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