SOLUTION: Find all points having an x -coordinate of 2 whose distance from the point (-2,-1) is 5? I think it uses distance formula or a midpoint formula.

Question 13249: Find all points having an x -coordinate of 2 whose distance from the point (-2,-1) is 5? I think it uses distance formula or a midpoint formula.
Found 2 solutions by akmb1215, rapaljer:
Answer by akmb1215(68) (Show Source):
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You're right - you use the distance formula for this. . You know one point, the x-coordinate of the other point, and the distance between the two points. When you plug this information into the equation, you get . To get rid of the square root, sqare both sides to get . Work out the subtraction in the parentheses and then square the answers to get: . Move the 25 over to get . Factor this out to get . Your two points are (2,-6) and (2,4).

Answer by rapaljer(4551) (Show Source):
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The points you need to find are (2, y) such that the distance from (2,y) to (-2, -1) is 5. You are right to use the distance formula!!

Square both sides of the equation:

or
y=3-1; or y = -3 -1
y = 2 or y = -4

The points are (2,2) and (2, -4).

Check: Distance from (2,2) to (-2, -1) =
Distance from (2,-4) to (-2, -1) =

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