Find the distance between 0.5 and 6.5

According to the number line, what is the distance between points a and b? v ++ + + + + -16 -14 -12 -10 -8 + 6 + 4 + -2 + 0 + 2 + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 14 + 16 o6 units o 7 units 12 units o 14 units

Thompson and thompson is a steel bolts manufacturing company. their current steel bolts have a mean diameter of 127 millimeters, and a variance of 36. if a random sample of 35 steel bolts is selected, what is the probability that the sample mean would differ from the population mean by greater than 0.5 millimeters? round your answer to four decimal places.

Hell . what are the solutions to `10x^2 - 38x - 8 = 0`? is this when i find the factors and use the numbers within the factors to determine the zeros? i hope that made sense lol