Question 56460This question is from textbook college algebra
: Hi, am I making this more difficult than it should be?
The questions reads as "Find the difference between -8 and -32 on the number line". What is my solution? Thanks!
This question is from textbook college algebra
Answer by funmath(2933)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The questions reads as "Find the difference between -8 and -32 on the number line".
If you have a number line you can simply count the steps from one number to the next.
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-32,-31,-30,-29,-28,-27,-26,-25,-24,-23,-22,-21,-20,-19,-18,-17,-16,-15,-14,-13,-12,-11,-10,-9,-8
There are 24 steps from -32 to -8.
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Another way to figure it out is to take the absolute value of their difference: |-8-(-32)|
|-8+32|
24
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Happy Calculating!!!
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