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Find the distance between the points (6,1) and (9,5)

User The Badak
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5 units. This is because you can create a triangle with the sides at a 3,4,x.. x being 5 using the a^2+b^2=c^2
User Mikhail Ramendik
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square root of (9-6)^2 +(5-1)^2 = 5

the distance is 5 units

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