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Was that her going from door to door?

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You get 4 as the distance. You never get a negative no matter where the points are.

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When you speak of distance to something we mean the shortest distance else any one of those line segments can apply.

Hmmm...

First of all when you speak of the distance from A which is located at (-4,-4) which line do you think is the distance of A to the y axis?

-2? Have you ever had to go someplace and said it was -4 km away? Did you try the distance formula on this problem? Your common sense and the the distance formula will show you that this distance is 2.

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