SOLUTION: Use the absolute value to express the distance between the points with coordinates a and b on the number line. Then determine this distance by evaluating the absolute value express

SOLUTION: Use the absolute value to express the distance between the points with coordinates a and b on the number line. Then determine this distance by evaluating the absolute value express

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Question 556441: Use the absolute value to express the distance between the points with coordinates a and b on the number line. Then determine this distance by evaluating the absolute value expression.
a = 7 and b = 0

Answer by CubeyThePenguin(3113) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
|a - b| = |7 - 0| = 7
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