The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8240 or -8240?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8240?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8240| = ?
The absolute value of -8240 is the distance between -8240 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8240:
Since the distance between -8240 and 0 on a number line is 8240, we get the answer as follows:
|-8240| = 8240
Note that the absolute value of -8240 can also be written as abs(-8240) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8239
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