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Kate is arranging new furniture in her rectangular sitting room. She has mapped the arrangement on a coordinate plane. A, B, and C represent the sofas, V1 and V2 are decorative vases and AQ represents the aquarium. Find the distance between V2 and the aquarium in Kate's sitting room.

Kate is arranging new furniture in her rectangular sitting room. She has mapped the-example-1
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v2 to AQ

v2 is at -6,-5

AQ is at 5,5

a difference of 11 right, 10 up

11^2 + 10^2 = c^2

121 + 100 = c^2

root221 = c = 14.87

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