Question

What is the distance between the points (5, 1) and (-3, -5)?

2 square root 5

2 square root 10

10

4 square root 5

Answer 1

from 5 to -3 is going to be 8 steps
how many steps from 1 to -5?

Answer 2

sqrt((x1-x2)^2+(y1-y2)^2)

Answer 3

s the formula

Answer 4

i a don't like formulas so much
i would count the steps and then use the pythagorean theorem
of course you could use
\[\huge \sqrt{(x_2-x_2)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2}\] if you like