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What is the distance between -3 and 5 on a real number line

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The distance between -3 and 5 is 7. If you were to include -3 and 5 into it, then it would be 9. But the distance BETWEEN is 7.

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The distance between -3 and 0 is positive 3 , and the distance between 0 and 5 is 5, add 5 and 3 together to get a distance of 8
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