SOLUTION: if -5.2 and 4.8 are on a number line. what is the distance between these two points?

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Question 499215: if -5.2 and 4.8 are on a number line. what is the distance between these two points?
Answer by Flannery(124) About Me  (Show Source):
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5.2+4.8
remember that the distance down is one part of the whole distance apart and the distance up is the other part of the distance.
10 is the answer.
In this problem, what you did was add the absolute values of the two numbers.