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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Absolute value can also be described as distance from 0. It essentially works like |x|=x and |-x|= x. It's actually very simple. The number is just the same but always positive if it is absolute value. Hope that helped.