What two numbers have an absolute value of 509?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 509, 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 509 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 509 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 509 units to the right on the positive side, you get 509 and when you go 509 units to the left on the negative side you get -509.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 509?" is: 509 and -509.

The absolute value of 509 is 509 and the absolute value of -509 is also 509. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|509| = 509
|-509| = 509

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

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