The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8309 or -8309?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8309?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8309| = ?
The absolute value of -8309 is the distance between -8309 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8309:

Since the distance between -8309 and 0 on a number line is 8309, we get the answer as follows:
|-8309| = 8309
Note that the absolute value of -8309 can also be written as abs(-8309) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8308
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