The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8243 or -8243?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8243?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8243| = ?
The absolute value of -8243 is the distance between -8243 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8243:
Since the distance between -8243 and 0 on a number line is 8243, we get the answer as follows:
|-8243| = 8243
Note that the absolute value of -8243 can also be written as abs(-8243) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8242
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