What is the distance between $(17,-6)$ and $(-1,24)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-01-12T17:53:55

distance $= sqrt(1224)$

The points given are
$(17, -6) = color(blue)(x_1,y_1$

$(-1, 24) = color(blue)(x_2, y_2$

The distance is found using formula
distance $= sqrt((x_2 - x_1)^2 + (y_2 - y_1)^2)$

$= sqrt((-1 -17)^2 + (24 - (-6))^2)$

$= sqrt((-18)^2 + (30)^2)$

$= sqrt((324 + 900)$

$= sqrt(1224)$

What is the distance between (17,-6)(17,-6) and (-1,24)(-1,24)?