Question

What is the distance between the points (-1, -9) and (4, -2)?

Answer 1

Use distance formula
\[d=\sqrt{(x_2-x_1)^{2}+(y_2-y_1)^{2}}\]

Answer 2

\[x_1 = -1\]
\[x_2 = 4\]
\[y_1 = -9\]
\[y_2 = -2\]

Answer 3

5,7?

Answer 4

@waterineyes you read my mind.

Answer 5

thank you guys so much! :)

Answer 6

That is why posted what your mind was saying..

Ha ha ha..

Answer 7

So what you get after solving this, just post your answer here so that we can check.. :)

@mpj11

Answer 8

@wackett1996
That's... okay...
It's not that simple though, but you're nearly there...
What you have acquired was the differences between their x and y-coordinates...
now visualise a right triangle with those legs, and find the hypotenuse, using the Pythagorean Theorem

Answer 9

@terenzreignz He has quite the point. His way is much much easier if you want to do his way!
\[A^{2}+B^{2}=C^{2}\]
Where A=5 and B=7

Answer 10

I wish my stupid geometry teacher could sound as smart as you and explain it so well

Answer 11

@RoseDryer Maybe it has something to do with the distance formula being tied to the Pythagorean theorem? :D

Answer 12

Hahaa, a lot of people tell me there teachers don't teach well. I don't let my teacher even try sometimes just for that reason, I just go to my public school and get things explained to me there.

Answer 13

@terenzreignz Maybe! =D

Answer 14

In that distance formula, we are just using the Pythagorean theorem..

\[Distance = \sqrt{A^2 + B^2}\]

Answer 15

Where :
\(A = (x_2 - x_1)\) and \(B = (y_2 - y_1)\).

Answer 16

@waterineyes sehr wahr

Answer 17

What?

Answer 18

Deutsch?

Answer 19

I don't know this language..
May be he said that I am Right..

Ha ha ha...

Answer 20

\[\Large \approx \text{very true}\]

Answer 21

Oh Okay..

Answer 22

@waterineyes I'm am not a he!

Answer 23

@RoseDryer
Wo kommst du her?
:)

Answer 24

So are you Heman if you are not a he!! ??

Ha ha ha..

Answer 25

@waterineyes Trust me I'm plenty a woman.

Answer 26

And I am just kidding this time..

Answer 27

Woman??

Not even a girl?

Answer 28

@terenzreignz Ich komme aus Ohio.

Answer 29

@terenzreignz this is how we learned to say where are you from when I was in public.
Woher kommst du?

Answer 30

Bitte, ruf mich Terenz :)

I just learned some German when I got bored online :D
I actually thought you were a native speaker... and I may well be right, right? :D

Answer 31

I actually dropped out of German II this year. I don't know much. But I do know the verb you used 'ruf' means to call (on a phone). So you should have said
Ich heiße _________ <--your name here. Ich heiße means in a translation on google mean My name, in real life it means I am to be called.

Answer 32

And the full verb of ruf is rufen. Which mean to call (on a phone) or to call out.

Answer 33

I thought to call on the phone was anrufen...
And so call me (on the phone) would be ruf mich an...
but then again, what does a kid who brushed the internet know? :D

I'll defer to your superior instruction :)