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When you are finding the distance between two points on a number line do you add or subtract to find the distance?

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You really do both add or subtract because you can look for points that go down or up unless you are plotting points. Hoped it helped
User Yuri Grinshteyn
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subtract
example: if the points are 5 and 10, do 10-5 for the answer of 5
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