The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8249 or -8249?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8249?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8249| = ?
The absolute value of -8249 is the distance between -8249 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8249:

Since the distance between -8249 and 0 on a number line is 8249, we get the answer as follows:
|-8249| = 8249
Note that the absolute value of -8249 can also be written as abs(-8249) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8248
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