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Drag the two ordered pairs that are 5.5 units apart.

(-3, -3.5)
(-1.5, 2)
(-1.5, 2.5)
(5, 1.5) (5, -3.5)
(-1.5, -3.5)

User Marivel
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Answer: (-1.5, 2) and (-1.5, -3.5)

Explanation:

The distance between two points (a, b) and (c, d) is:

D = √( (a - c)^2 + (b - d)^2)

A simpler case, is when we have two points where one of the components is the same for both of them, like:

(a, b) and (a, c)

Then the distance will be:

D = √( (a - a)^2 + (b - c)^2 ) = Ib - cI

Then we need to look for points that have an equal component, and the difference between the other two components is exactly 5.5

The solution will be:

(-1.5, 2) and (-1.5, -3.5)

Where the x-component is the same in both of them, then the distance will be:

D = I2 - (-3.5)I = I2 + 3.5I = 5.5

User Trevorj
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