Question

An airplane at T(80,20) needsto fly to both U(20,60) and V(110,85).What is the shortest possible distance for the trip?

-165 units
-170 units
-97 units
-169 units

Answer 1

You need to use the distance formula:\[\sqrt{(x_{1}-x _{2})^{2}+(y _{1}-y _{2})^{2}}\]
Basically you need to figure out whether it's shorter to go TUV or TVU. Since you're going to have to travel the distance between U and V at some point, it all comes down to whether TU or TV is shorter. Just trying to save you some work lol.