What is the distance between $(5,-10)$ and $(4,-2)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-10T01:57:19

$sqrt(65)$ .

You would apply the distance formula here, which is $sqrt((x_1-x_2)^2+(y_1-y_2)^2)$ .

When you plug it in, you get $sqrt((5-4)^2+(-10+2)$ - the $-10-(-2)$ is the same thing as $-10+2$ .

This simplifies to $sqrt((1)^2+(8)^2)$ , or just $sqrt(1+64)$ , and then to just #sqrt(65).

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