Distance Formula
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What is the distance between and
?
Explanation
Write the distance formula.
Substitute the points:
The radical can be broken down into factors of perfect squares.
The answer is:
What is the distance between the point (1,2) and (8,5)?
Explanation
For this question we will use the distance formula to solve.
In our case
and
Substituting these values in we get the following
The points A=(-2,0), B=(0,3), and C=(0,0) makes a triangle. What is the distance between point A and point B?
Explanation
For this question we need to use the distance formula for points A and B.
Point A will be our and point B will be
Now we substitute these values into the following:
Find the distance between the two points (2,7) and (4,6).
Explanation
The distance between two points is found using the formula
For this problem the values are as follows:
Input the values into the formula and simplify
Find the distance between and
.
Explanation
For this problem we will need to use the distance formula:
In our case,
and
.
Plugging these values into the formula we are able to find the distance.