What is the distance between (5, –6, 4) and (–2, 2, 6) ?

1 Answer
Jan 23, 2016

The distance formula is of the form:
d^2=(Deltax^2)+(Deltay)^2+(Deltaz)^2 where Delta stands for "change in"
Or the difference between one and the other.

Explanation:

Just we just fill in the x,y,z co-ordinates:
d^2=(-2-5)^2+(2--6)^2+(6-4)^2
d^2=(-7)^2+(8)^2+(2)^2=49+64+4=117

And the distance d is the square root of this:
d=sqrt117~~10.82