Question

What is the distance between the points (-2,1) and (3,7)?

Answer 1

Do you know the distance formula?

Answer 2

no thats why im confused hahah

Answer 3

Do you know pythagorean theorem?
a^2+b^2=c^2

Answer 4

yup

Answer 5

what would that help me with doesn't that have to do with finding like a triangle?

Answer 6

okay so lets tart with that. Pythagorean theorem tells us how to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle when we are given the 2 legs.
In this case, you have 2 poitns (x,y)

Answer 7

ok ;]

Answer 8

you can find the difference in x (x2-x1) and (y2-y1) to find the two legs
which will form a triangle with the distance (hypotenuse in this case)

Answer 9

so 6 over 5

Answer 10

distance formula is

Answer 11

the possible answers that i have are square roots

Answer 12

so your two legs are 6 and 5. Now go back to pythagorean theorem. The square of the two legs = the square of the hypotenuse.
(leg1)^2 +(leg2)^2 = (hypotenuse)^2

Answer 13

thankyou it all makes sense now WOW