Question

Find the distance between the two points: (8, 3) and (-2, 6). Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

Answer 1

To find the distance between two points we have to use the following formula:

`d=√((x2-x1)^2+(y2-y1)^2)`

Where d is the distance, x2 and x1 are the x coordinates of the points and y2 and y1 are the y coordinates of the points:

`\begin{gathered} d=√((8-(-2))^2+(3-6)^2) \\ d=\sqrt{(10)^2+(-6)^2\frac{}{}} \\ d=√(100+36) \\ d=√(136) \\ d=11.66 \end{gathered}`

It means that the distance between these two points is 11.66.