Question

Which of the following expressions represent the distance between a and b on a number line?

Answer 1

A. since absolute value is the distance between two numbers B. too since it is same thing in absolute value

Answer 2

The expressions that represent the distance between a and b on a number line is:

A. |a-b|

B. |b-a|

Explanation:

We know that a absolute value of a number is the magnitude of a number without regarding the sign.

We know that the distance between two numbers a and b is calculated as the absolute difference between the two numbers.

Hence, the answer is:

Option: A and Option: B