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Question 136395: Tutor can you walk me throught this problem...please..thank you.
Find the distance between the pair of points. Give an exact answer and where appropriate an approximation to three decimal points.
(-4,-7) and (-1,3)
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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
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Find the distance between the pair of points. Give an exact answer and where appropriate an approximation to three decimal points.
(-4,-7) and (-1,3)
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distance = sqrt[(3--7)^2 + (-1--4)^2]
distance = sqrt[10^2 + 3^2]
distance = sqrt[109]
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The distance between two given points (,) and (,) is given by . Just plug in your coordinate values and do the arithmetic.

Unless you end up with a perfect square (and you won't if you do the arithmetic correctly), leave the answer in radical form for an exact answer. Punch the radicand into a calculator and take the square root for your decimal approximation, although I would say doing so was inappropriate for this problem.