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81. What is the distance between (-5, 2) and (-9,-4)?

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81. What is the distance between (-5, 2) and (-9,-4)? Leave your answer in simplest-example-1
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Answer:

Use the distance formula to determine the distance between the two points.

Distance

=

(

x

2

x

1

)

2

+

(

y

2

y

1

)

2

Substitute the actual values of the points into the distance formula.

(

4

(

5

)

)

2

+

(

9

2

)

2

Simplify.

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130

The result can be shown in multiple forms.

Exact Form:

130

Decimal Form:

11.40175425

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