Answer
|-17|+4=17+4=21
Work Step by Step
The distance between -17 and 4 can be looked at as the distance between -17 and 0 plus the distance between 0 and 4. That can be more easily seen as |-17|+4, which is equal to 21.
Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer
by Blitzer, Robert F.
Published by
Pearson
ISBN 10:
0-13446-914-3
ISBN 13:
978-0-13446-914-0
Chapter P - Review Exercises - Page 142: 12
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