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

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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