Question 13341: How do you find the distance between the points (9,5) and (2,6)? Found 2 solutions by smik, akmb1215:Answer by smik(40) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Great problem. The easiest way, by my opinion, is to use the Distance Formula (a manipulation of the Pythagoras Theorem if you look closely):
In our case: x1 = 9, x2 = 2, y1 = 5, y2 = 6
Therefore:
which simplified gives us:
And simplified further gives us:
Though I would leave it like that for precision some people prefer it to be rounded off to 3 significant figures, which would give us:
D = 7.07
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The formula to find the distance between two points is ...where (x1,y1) are the coordinates of the first point (in your case, (9,5)...and (x2,y2) are the coordinates of the second point (in your problem, (2,6). Plug your points into the equation to get: . Subtract the numbers in the parentheses to get: . Square -7 and 1 to get: . Add to get . Simplify the square root to get .
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