What two numbers have an absolute value of 473?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 473, 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 473 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 473 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 473 units to the right on the positive side, you get 473 and when you go 473 units to the left on the negative side you get -473.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 473?" is: 473 and -473.

The absolute value of 473 is 473 and the absolute value of -473 is also 473. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|473| = 473
|-473| = 473

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

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