What is the distance between (-1, 3) and (5, 0)?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-29T04:23:30

I assume that you know the distance formula (square root of sum of corresponding coordinates squared)

#sqrt((a-b)^2 + (c-d)^2#

We can just plug in the corresponding values into the formula

#sqrt((-1-5)^2 + (3-0)^2#

#sqrt(-6^2 + 3^2)#

This becomes #sqrt(36 + 9)#

Which is #sqrt(45)#

We can take out a 9 to get a final answer of #3sqrt5#