What is the distance between 32 and -67 on a number line?

Question

Responses
A -35-35
B 3535
C 4545
D 49.549.5
E 9999

Answer 1

To find the distance between two numbers on a number line, we subtract the smaller number from the larger number and take the absolute value of the result, which ensures the distance is positive.

In this case, the two numbers are 32 and -67.

We subtract -67 from 32:

32 - (-67) = 32 + 67 = 99

Now we take the absolute value, although in this case, the result is already positive:

|99| = 99

So the distance between 32 and -67 on a number line is 99.

The correct answer is:
E 99