The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8296 or -8296?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8296?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8296| = ?
The absolute value of -8296 is the distance between -8296 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8296:

Since the distance between -8296 and 0 on a number line is 8296, we get the answer as follows:
|-8296| = 8296
Note that the absolute value of -8296 can also be written as abs(-8296) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8295
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