What two numbers have an absolute value of 1996?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 1996, 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 1996 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 1996 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 1996 units to the right on the positive side, you get 1996 and when you go 1996 units to the left on the negative side you get -1996.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 1996?" is: 1996 and -1996.

The absolute value of 1996 is 1996 and the absolute value of -1996 is also 1996. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|1996| = 1996
|-1996| = 1996

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

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