What is the distance between A and K?
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What is the distance between A and K?
One might think that because there are numbers on the axis that go into the negative domain, that the result must also negative.
However it is important to keep in mind that here we are asking about distance.
Distance can never be negative.
Even if we move towards or from the domain of negativity, distance is an existing value (absolute value).
We can think of it as if we were counting the number of steps, and it doesn't matter if we start from five or minus five, both are 5 steps away from zero.
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All negative numbers appear on the number line to the left of the number 0.
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