Question

Yanni wants to know the distance from his house at point A to his friend's house at point B. If he thinks of the distance from A to B as the hypotenuse of a right triangle, he can use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance.

What is the distance from Yanni's house to his friend's house, if each unit on the coordinate plane is one mile? Answers are
rounded to the nearest hundredth.

Answer 1

Explanation:

You use the Pythagorean theorem, getting the distance from Yanni's house to his friend's house as:

sqrt(4^2+6^2) = sqrt(52) = about 7.21