
To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 1788, 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 1788 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 1788 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.
When you go 1788 units to the right on the positive side, you get 1788 and when you go 1788 units to the left on the negative side you get -1788.
Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 1788?" is: 1788 and -1788.
The absolute value of 1788 is 1788 and the absolute value of -1788 is also 1788. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:
|1788| = 1788
|-1788| = 1788
For future reference, remember that the two numbers that have an absolute value of x are x and -x.
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