Question

What is the distance between points (5,-3) and (0,9) in a coordinate system?

Answer 1

plug into the distance formula, left coordinate is x and right coordinate is y

Answer 2

sqrt[ (x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 ]

Answer 3

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Answer 4

another way to view it, is by moving one point to the origin

(5,-3) (0,9)
-9 -9
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(5,-12) (0,0)

so its the same distance as (5,-12) from origin

Answer 5

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