Question

What is the distance between -7 and 3?
A. 4
B. -4
C. 9
D. 10

Answer 1

the answer is 10 generally

Answer 2

Note the number line:

< ----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|------------------------------------------------>
-7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3

There is 10 spaces inbetween -7 and 3

This means that D. 10 is your answer

Note that when counting distance between the two numbers, add them regardless of their sign, and you get your distance.


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