What is the distance between (15,24) and (42,4)?

1 Answer
Nov 23, 2015

The distance between (15, 24) and (42, 4) is approximately 33.6 units.

Explanation:

The formula for the distance between 2 points is:

d=sqrt(((x_"2"-x_"1")^2+(y_"2"-y_"1")^2))

1^(st) point: (x_"1",y_"1") = (15, 24)
2^(nd) point: (x_"2",y_"2") = (42, 4)

Substitute the points into the distance formula:

d=sqrt(((x_"2"-x_"1")^2+(y_"2"-y_"1")^2))
d=sqrt(((42)-(15))^2+((4)-(24))^2)
d=sqrt((27)^2+(-20)^2)
d=sqrt((729)+(400)
d=sqrt(1129)
d~~33.6