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What is the distance from the point (a, −b, −4) to the origin?

What is the distance from the point (a, −b, −4) to the origin?-example-1
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Answer:


√(a^2+b^2+16)

Explanation:

The distance (d) between two points in 3 dimensions is ...

d = √((x2 -x1)² +(y2 -y1)² +(z2 -z1)²)

Then the distance between (a, -b, -4) and (0, 0, 0) is ...

d = √((a -0)² +(-b -0)² +(-4 -0)²)

= √(a² +b² +16)

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