Making Connection Between Distance and Absolute Value
We have learned about the distance formula and we also have discussed how to get the distance between two points given their coordinates. In this post, we are going to explore a simpler concept: getting the distance between two points on the number line.
Suppose we want to get the distance between two p0ints on the number line whose coordinates are integers, we can just do it by counting. In the figure below, the distance from 
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It is also obvious that we can get the distance by subtraction: 
