Question

HELP HELP HELP PLS Does it matter which way you subtract the values when you are finding the distance between two numbers on a number line .Give example to support your answer please answer in complete sentence please it's about to be due.

Answer 1

Yes, it matters which way you subtract values because if you subtract a larger number from a smaller number you will get a negative nummber, but when you subtract the smaller number from the bigger number you get a positive number

ex: 5-6= -1 but 6-5=1

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