The number line is the main visual base in statistics and we often want to look at two points on the number line and determine the distance between them. The key to finding the distance between two po...The number line is the main visual base in statistics and we often want to look at two points on the number line and determine the distance between them. The key to finding the distance between two points is to remember that the geometric definition of subtraction is the distance between the two numbers as long as we subtract the smaller number from the larger.