Does |3| + |2| = |3 - 2| = 1 or does it equal 5? The book I'm reading gives me seemingly contradictory information that we're searching for the distance between |3| and |2| but then it says |3| + |2| ≠ 1
I'm not really sure how to approach the problem.
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Just do the problem normally, then turn it to a positive. Remember it as distance from 0. |5 - 7| = |-2| so |5 - 7| = 2