What is the distance between -1.8 and 2.6?

Question

Any help would be appreciated :D

Answer 1

Since one value is negative and one is positive, you can find the absolute value of each and add them together. That makes 1.8 and 2.6. Adding the two will come to 4.4 in distance.

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Answer 2

Jacob

On a number line, if a > b, then the distance between a and b will be a-b.

So here you have a=2.6, b= -1.8

Mike