The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8241 or -8241?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8241?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8241| = ?
The absolute value of -8241 is the distance between -8241 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8241:

Since the distance between -8241 and 0 on a number line is 8241, we get the answer as follows:
|-8241| = 8241
Note that the absolute value of -8241 can also be written as abs(-8241) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8240
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