SOLUTION: Please help me find the distance between the pionts (8,3) and (2,7).

Question 209345: Please help me find the distance between the pionts (8,3) and (2,7).
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 .

Simplify the square root.

So our answer is

Which approximates to

So the distance between the two points is approximately 7.211 units.

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