Question

help me with some geometry questions please ?

Answer 1

find the length of AB if A is located at (-5,0) and B is located at (1,0)

Answer 2

How would you find the length of that?

Answer 3

We see that the y components do not matter since they are both 0 so using the x component of both the Points A and B you can solve for the length of the line they create

Answer 4

would it be -4 ?

Answer 5

@Johnbc

Answer 6

Well if you were to add them up yes but we are not adding them up as they are because that would give us only the sum of the 2 points when we want the total distance

Answer 7

Think of them both as positive numbers and add them up

Answer 8

since we do not want negative numbers in our total distance

Answer 9

so 6 ?

Answer 10

Correct! its length is 6 units

Answer 11

if we want to be consistent and it is less intuitive we can use the formula for distance between 2 points.
Distance Formula: Given the two points (x1, y1) and (x2, y2), the distance between these points is given by the formula:
\[d = \sqrt{(x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2}\]