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3 years ago

when finding the distance between two rational numbers on a number line, does the order of the numbers you subtract matter?

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sergeinik [125]3 years ago

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Answer:

the distance between two numbers and on the number line is . Note that the distance between two numbers is always positive, no matter the order. But the difference can be positive or negative, depending on the order.

Step-by-step explanation:

the distance between two points on a line is abs(x1-x2) which is a symmetric function abs(y)=abs(-y) so abs(x1-x2)=abs(-(x1-x2))=abs(x2-x1) so the order does not matter since you take abs after the subtraction.

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