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What is the length of segment AB?

A coordinate plane is shown. Point A is located at 0, 12, and point B is located at 5, 0. The two points are connected by a line segment.

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Whoever answers this correctly, I will fan and medal!

What is the length of segment AB? 

A coordinate plane is shown. Point A is located at 0, 12, and point B is located at 5, 0. The two points are connected by a line segment. 

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anonymous · Answer

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fortytherapper · Answer

If one side is 5 and another is 12, maybe Pythagorean Theorem?

dboome · Answer

Yeah, like Mr.Rapper says. If you draw a triangle between A, B, and the origin (the point 0,0 on the graph), you get a right triangle. Pythagoras found out the relationship between a right triangle's sides is $$C^2=A^2+B^2$$where C would be the line between A and B. In other words, the distance between the two points A and B would be given by $$C = \sqrt{A^2+B^2}$$What are the values of A and B? Well they're given to you in the problem. :)

ricardovg · Answer

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