The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8258 or -8258?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8258?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8258| = ?
The absolute value of -8258 is the distance between -8258 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8258:
Since the distance between -8258 and 0 on a number line is 8258, we get the answer as follows:
|-8258| = 8258
Note that the absolute value of -8258 can also be written as abs(-8258) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8257
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