The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8288 or -8288?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8288?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8288| = ?
The absolute value of -8288 is the distance between -8288 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8288:

Since the distance between -8288 and 0 on a number line is 8288, we get the answer as follows:
|-8288| = 8288
Note that the absolute value of -8288 can also be written as abs(-8288) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8287
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