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Income Eats the Vote

You're clustering customers using two raw features: annual income in dollars (range: tens of thousands) and age in years (range: 0-100). When you compute plain Euclidean distance between customer pairs, a $50,000 income gap swamps a 40-year age gap in the total distance, even though age should matter too. What's the best fix before applying Euclidean distance?