Question

Find the lengths of the diagonals of this trapezoid.

Answer 1

You could use the distance formula for points (-b,c) and (a,0) and then again for points (b,c) and (-a,0).

Answer 2

Would the answer just be the distance formula? How would you simplify that with the variables?

Answer 3

I'll set up the distance formula for the distance between (-b,c) and (a,0).

(x1, y1) will be (-b,c)
(x2,y2) will be (a,0)