What two numbers have an absolute value of 342?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 342, 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 342 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 342 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 342 units to the right on the positive side, you get 342 and when you go 342 units to the left on the negative side you get -342.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 342?" is: 342 and -342.

The absolute value of 342 is 342 and the absolute value of -342 is also 342. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|342| = 342
|-342| = 342

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

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