The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8298 or -8298?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8298?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8298| = ?
The absolute value of -8298 is the distance between -8298 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8298:

Since the distance between -8298 and 0 on a number line is 8298, we get the answer as follows:
|-8298| = 8298
Note that the absolute value of -8298 can also be written as abs(-8298) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8297
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