The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8239 or -8239?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8239?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8239| = ?
The absolute value of -8239 is the distance between -8239 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8239:
Since the distance between -8239 and 0 on a number line is 8239, we get the answer as follows:
|-8239| = 8239
Note that the absolute value of -8239 can also be written as abs(-8239) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8238
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