which one of the following gives the distance between the numbers 11 and -8?
-19, -3, 19, 3
How do you figure out these problems??
You could use a number line.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/number-line.html
What Ms. Sue said, or absolute value of each term added to each other:
|a|+|b|
|11|+|-8|
11+8 = ____
This will work for any two terms, and is more practical, because if you are given larger numbers, it may be hard to graph them on a number line.
To find the distance between two numbers, you can subtract one number from the other and take the absolute value of the result. In this case, you want to find the distance between 11 and -8.
To calculate the distance, subtract -8 from 11:
11 - (-8) = 11 + 8 = 19
Since the question asks for the distance and not the signed difference, you need to take the absolute value of the result:
|19| = 19
Therefore, the correct answer is 19.