What is the distance between $(–3, –2)$ and $(1, 6)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-12-20T06:28:15

Apply the distance formula to find that the distance between the two points is
$4sqrt(5)$

Applying the distance formula, we get

$"distance" = sqrt((1-(-3))^2 + (6-(-2))^2)$

$= sqrt(4^2 + 8^2)$

$= sqrt(80)$

$=4sqrt(5)$

What is the distance between (–3, –2)(–3, –2) and (1, 6) (1, 6) ?