How can I put more space between words?

I find that sometimes I need to put some texts as the following:

A.x+y B.2x C.y+z

Here is my question:

How can one put more spaces between this "choices" when needed?

You can also use html entity for space: &nsbp;

So writing A. Choice1 &nbsp; B. Choice2 &nbsp; C. Choice3

will make it look like

A. Choice1   B. Choice2   C. Choice3

When you are editing, look at the top right corner, there you will see a yellow question mark, which has help for formatting.

One way of doing this would be to put each choice on a new line. The website requires at least two spaces at the end of a line, in addition to the "return" button, in order to make a new line.

For example, putting two spaces at the end of each line of this input

  A. $x+y$
B. $2x$
C. $y+z$


generates

A. $x+y$
B. $2x$
C. $y+z$

• One should mention that the vertical lines need not be there for that to work. – Asaf Karagila Jun 27 '11 at 4:56
• @Asaf: Good point, I'll edit. – Zev Chonoles Jun 27 '11 at 5:10

Use LaTeX:

$$A.\, x+y \qquad B.\, 2x \qquad C.\, y+z$$

• Written as: A.\, x+y \qquad B.\, 2x \qquad C.\, y+z. This one can find by right-clicking on the image and clicking "Show Source". – ShreevatsaR Jun 27 '11 at 8:53
• Right-clicking the image doesn't show me the option "Show Source" And if I use the code mentioned by @ShreevatsaR the LaTeX code does not get formatted in tex.stackexchange.com. How do I tell Stack Exchange to interpret it as LaTeX? Do I need to surround it by  or something like this? – Jakob Jul 30 at 21:55