SOLUTION: find the distance between the pair of points (-1, -4) and (-5, -7) find the distance between the pair of points (-2, -6) and (7, -3) find the midpoint of the line seg

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Question 207328: find the distance between the pair of points (-1, -4) and (-5, -7)


find the distance between the pair of points (-2, -6) and (7, -3)


find the midpoint of the line segment with the given and points (2,1) and (6,8)

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'll do the first one to get you started.


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 and is 5 units.

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