Question

Suppose you walk straight from the jaguars to the tigers and then straight to the otters. What is the total distance you walked, to the nearest tenth of a unit?

Answer 1

is this all the info provided?

Answer 2

this aswell

Answer 3

have you learned about the distance formula?

Answer 4

yes i have, but awhile ago, can you refresh my memory?

Answer 5

suppose you've two points (x1,y1),(x2,y2)
then distance between them d=sqrt[(x1-x2)^2+(y1-y2)^2]

Answer 6

so plug in the x2 and y2 as the tigers data points and x1 and y1 for the jags

Answer 7

this is where i get confused

Answer 8

where the jag dot is (what its coordinates are?)

Answer 9

6, -5 ?

Answer 10

exactly

Answer 11

yeah do you know where the tigers is

Answer 12

(4, -1)

Answer 13

yeah

Answer 14

what did i say before about jag and tigers points (x1 y1 x2 y2) so now you know what each one equals..then just plug it in..

Answer 15

d= 4.4?

Answer 16

\[2\sqrt{5} or \sqrt{20}\]

Answer 17

close enough though

Answer 18

but it isnt over yet lol

Answer 19

you have to do the same for tiger to otter

Answer 20

can u handle that by urself?

Answer 21

d= \[\sqrt{89}\] ?

Answer 22

yeah

Answer 23

okay then i add those, correct or no?

Answer 24

yeah

Answer 25

Thank you! [:

Answer 26

u r actually gonna have to plug it into a calc or put into decimal form because 89 is prime

Answer 27

well, with the A,B,C,D choices I have, one of them makes the most sense to me, "13.9"

Answer 28

yeah seems closest

Answer 29

Okay, well thanks again (: