Question 1093192: Find the distance between (1, -2) and (-4, 3).
Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! It is the square root of the differences of the x s and the differences of the y s added together.
Unlike slope, where the direction in which one takes the difference matters, here it does not, because we are squaring it.
Difference between 1 and -4 is 5, 5 squared is 25.
Difference between -2 and 3 is also 5, and squared is 25.
It is the square root of (25+25)=sqrt(50)=5 sqrt 2 or about 7.71
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