The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8297 or -8297?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8297?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8297| = ?
The absolute value of -8297 is the distance between -8297 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8297:

Since the distance between -8297 and 0 on a number line is 8297, we get the answer as follows:
|-8297| = 8297
Note that the absolute value of -8297 can also be written as abs(-8297) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8296
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