Big Ideas Math: Modeling Real Life, Grade 7
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5. Subtracting Rational Numbers
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Exercise 39 Page 35

The absolute value of a number is its distance from 0 on the number line.

9.21

Practice makes perfect
We want to find the distance between - 1.85 and 7.36 on a number line. First, we can recall that the distance between any two numbers on a number line is the absolute value of the difference of the two numbers.
We can use this information to find the distance between - 1.85 and 7.36. Let's do it!
|- 1.85-7.36)|
|- 9.21|
9.21