The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of negative 8317 or -8317?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of -8317?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|-8317| = ?
The absolute value of -8317 is the distance between -8317 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where -x is -8317:
Since the distance between -8317 and 0 on a number line is 8317, we get the answer as follows:
|-8317| = 8317
Note that the absolute value of -8317 can also be written as abs(-8317) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of -8316
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