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Find the distance between the points (0, 0) and (6, -8).
4
√28
10

User Tstyle
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Answer: The distance between the points (0, 0) and (6, -8). is 10

User Kieran Wood
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10, imagine a line going through those 2 points. make that point into a hypotenuse of a right triangle. The length of the triangle is 6 and the height is 8 because the 6-0=6 (x values) and -8-0=-8 (y values). so use pythagorean theorem


{6}^(2) + {8}^(2) = {z}^(2) \\ z= 10

User Bojan Rajkovic
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