The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8285 or -8285?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8285?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8285| = ?
The absolute value of -8285 is the distance between -8285 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8285:
Since the distance between -8285 and 0 on a number line is 8285, we get the answer as follows:
|-8285| = 8285
Note that the absolute value of -8285 can also be written as abs(-8285) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8284
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