Question

What is the distance between points (5, 13)

and (-8, -9) rounded to the nearest
hundredth unit?

Answer 1

You are going to treat this as a triangle so one side is 13 units long and the other is 22. And using the pythagorean theorem a²+b²=c².

13²+22²=c²

169+484=c²

653=c²

√653=√c²

25.55386...=c

Or, rounded to the nearest hundredth, 25.55