The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8272 or -8272?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8272?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8272| = ?
The absolute value of -8272 is the distance between -8272 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8272:
Since the distance between -8272 and 0 on a number line is 8272, we get the answer as follows:
|-8272| = 8272
Note that the absolute value of -8272 can also be written as abs(-8272) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8271
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