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Does it matter which way you subtract the values when finding distance? Explain

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So long as you remember that distances are always zero or positive, the order in which you subtract one x-coordinate from another does not matter.

Example: |A-B| = |B-A|.

Communication of this situation is clearer, however, if you write algebraically larger x-coordinate first and the subtrahend second.
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