The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8238 or -8238?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8238?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8238| = ?
The absolute value of -8238 is the distance between -8238 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8238:
Since the distance between -8238 and 0 on a number line is 8238, we get the answer as follows:
|-8238| = 8238
Note that the absolute value of -8238 can also be written as abs(-8238) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8237
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