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Find the distance between the points and given below.(That is, find the length of the segment connecting and .)

Find the distance between the points and given below.(That is, find the length of-example-1

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The points A and B are apart from each other vertically by 3 units, and horizontally by 5 units. You get those values by counting the squares on the grid in those directions. To find their distance we can just apply the Pythagorean Theorem.


\begin{gathered} 3^2+5^2=d^2 \\ 9+25=d^2 \\ d=\sqrt[]{34} \\ d\approx5.83 \end{gathered}

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