What is longer

Question

What is longer, the distance from -32 to 27 or the distance from 

-21 to 41? use absolute values to prove your answer

Answer 1

distance from -21 to 41 is longer.

Inside the ab. symbol, the formula for distance is start - stop. It does not matter which number is which. 

 

|-21-41| = |-62| = 62.  This the total distance between those #'s.