The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8299 or -8299?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8299?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8299| = ?
The absolute value of -8299 is the distance between -8299 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8299:

Since the distance between -8299 and 0 on a number line is 8299, we get the answer as follows:
|-8299| = 8299
Note that the absolute value of -8299 can also be written as abs(-8299) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8298
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