What two numbers have an absolute value of 124?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 124, picture a horizontal number line where you have postive numbers on the right side of 0 and negative numbers on the left side of 0.

The two numbers that have 124 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 124 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 124 units to the right on the positive side, you get 124 and when you go 124 units to the left on the negative side you get -124.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 124?" is: 124 and -124.

The absolute value of 124 is 124 and the absolute value of -124 is also 124. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|124| = 124
|-124| = 124

For future reference, remember that the two numbers that have an absolute value of x are x and -x.

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