The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8287 or -8287?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8287?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8287| = ?
The absolute value of -8287 is the distance between -8287 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8287:

Since the distance between -8287 and 0 on a number line is 8287, we get the answer as follows:
|-8287| = 8287
Note that the absolute value of -8287 can also be written as abs(-8287) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8286
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