Absolute difference

Imagine you have two groups of marbles. One group has 5 marbles, and the other has 3 marbles. You want to know the difference between the two groups.

To find the absolute difference, you need to figure out how many marbles are different between the two groups.

First, you count how many marbles are in each group. The first group has 5 marbles and the second has 3 marbles.

Then you subtract the smaller group from the bigger group. 5 - 3 = 2. This means that the bigger group has 2 more marbles than the smaller group.

Now, to find the absolute difference, you ignore whether the bigger group has more or fewer marbles. You just look at how much they differ. So the absolute difference between the two groups is 2 marbles. This means that no matter which group has more marbles, the difference between them is always 2 marbles.