The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8279 or -8279?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8279?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8279| = ?
The absolute value of -8279 is the distance between -8279 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8279:
Since the distance between -8279 and 0 on a number line is 8279, we get the answer as follows:
|-8279| = 8279
Note that the absolute value of -8279 can also be written as abs(-8279) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8278
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