Question

find the distance between points m(6, 16) and z(-1,14) to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

Make a triangle and use the pythagorean theorem to find the hypotenuse which connects these two points.

Answer 2

You can make this a formula by saying: \[\sqrt{(x _{2}-x _{1})^{2}+(y _{2}-y _{1})^{2}}\]