That would be 25 units. You can draw it out and you would get 25 units, or you could see the difference in -10 and 15, their distance would be 25 units.
Her error was dividing them by 2 she would place 1.25 over 5 then divide by 5 to get the unit rate per minute then multiply the quotient by 2 to get the rate of degrees moved for 2 minutes which is .5 or .50 degrees every two minutes.