11. The negative 8 had to go to the positive 3. You add 8 automatically to get yourself to 0. Once you do that you add three to make them the same to find the distance. The answer is 11.
These two coordinates in (x,y) form have the same value for x, so they only differ in the y-value. That means if we subtract the y-values, that’s the vertical distance!
-8 - 3 = -11
(It helps me to think of this as -8 + -3.) They’re 11 units apart: think of it like a absolute value.
