The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8237 or -8237?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8237?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8237| = ?
The absolute value of -8237 is the distance between -8237 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8237:
Since the distance between -8237 and 0 on a number line is 8237, we get the answer as follows:
|-8237| = 8237
Note that the absolute value of -8237 can also be written as abs(-8237) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8236
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