How do you use absolute value to find the distance between two points that have the same X-coordinates but different Y-coordinates? Explain.

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asked Jul 9, 2017 147k views

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Siarhei Kavaleuski · Answer 1 · 2017-07-14T09:01:38+0000

so since x coordinates are same, we just have a horizontal distance to find (no fancy slanted lines)

so what you do is
|y1-y2|=distance