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True or false. Aaliyah said that two numbers can have the same absolute value, but none there is no absolute value that represents only one number. Explain your answer.

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I think that the first part is true but the second is wrong because a number and its opposite will have the same absolute value. For example, the 5 is the absolute value of 5 and -5. This works with all numbers and their opposites. Since the number 0 doesn't have an opposite value, I think that 0, as an absolute value, only represents 0.
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