The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8234 or -8234?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8234?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8234| = ?
The absolute value of -8234 is the distance between -8234 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8234:

Since the distance between -8234 and 0 on a number line is 8234, we get the answer as follows:
|-8234| = 8234
Note that the absolute value of -8234 can also be written as abs(-8234) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8233
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