What two numbers have an absolute value of 5988?

To find the two numbers that have an absolute value of a number, such as 5988, 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 5988 as an absolute value are the numbers you get when you go 5988 units from the right and left of the 0 on the number line.

When you go 5988 units to the right on the positive side, you get 5988 and when you go 5988 units to the left on the negative side you get -5988.

Therefore, the answer to "What two numbers have an absolute value of 5988?" is: 5988 and -5988.

The absolute value of 5988 is 5988 and the absolute value of -5988 is also 5988. Here it is expressed mathematically with vertical lines that we call bars:

|5988| = 5988
|-5988| = 5988

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

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