SOLUTION: how do you find the distance between the pair of points (5,-5) and (1,-2)?

Question 293490: how do you find the distance between the pair of points (5,-5) and (1,-2)?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Note:

is the first point

. So this means that and .
Also,

is the second point

. So this means that and .

Start with the distance formula.

Plug in , , , and .

Subtract from to get .

Subtract from to get .

Square to get .

Square to get .

Add to to get .

Take the square root of to get .

So our answer is

So the distance between the two points is 5 units.
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