The first (and most typical) way to find distance of two points is by using the distance formula.

One alternative is the Manhattan metric, also called the taxicab metric. This option is much more complicated, and rarely used in high school math. d(x,y)=∑i|xi-yi|
To factor completely 18b - 32, we factor out the common factor of the two terms and divide each of term by the common factor.
18b - 32 = 2(18b/2 - 32/2) = 2(9b - 16)
35% of 60 is 21. Hope this helped!
The numbers in pie are 3.14159