The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8286 or -8286?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8286?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8286| = ?
The absolute value of -8286 is the distance between -8286 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8286:

Since the distance between -8286 and 0 on a number line is 8286, we get the answer as follows:
|-8286| = 8286
Note that the absolute value of -8286 can also be written as abs(-8286) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8285
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