What is the distance between $(6,5)$ and $(52,-12)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-22T19:16:00

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The formula for calculating the distance between two points is:

$d = sqrt((color(red)(x_2) - color(blue)(x_1))^2 + (color(red)(y_2) - color(blue)(y_1))^2)$

Substituting the values from the points in the problem gives:

$d = sqrt((color(red)(52) - color(blue)(6))^2 + (color(red)(-12) - color(blue)(5))^2)$

$d = sqrt(46^2 + (-17)^2)$

$d = sqrt(2116 + 289)$

$d = sqrt(2405)$

Or

$d ~= 49.04$

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