SOLUTION: An airplane is circling an airport waiting to land. If the plane is currently at the point (-6, 3.46) as indicated on the graph and will begin its landing when it reaches the point

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Question 77350: An airplane is circling an airport waiting to land. If the plane is currently at the point (-6, 3.46) as indicated on the graph and will begin its landing when it reaches the point P, find the cooridinates of P. If the control tower is located at the origin, how far is the plane from the control tower when it begins to land?
Obviously I know it's probably impossble to do this without me showing you the graph but I thought I'd still try. I've all ready figured out that the point P is (-2, -3.46) and the Origin is at (-4,0). Maybe with that information you can help me out? Thanks!

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To find the distance from the origin (0,0) to point P (-2, -3.46) (according to your work), simply use the distance formula:
Solved by pluggable solver: Distance between two points in two dimensions
The distance (denoted by d) between two points in two dimensions is given by the following formula:

d=sqrt%28%28x1-x2%29%5E2+%2B+%28y1-y2%29%5E2%29

Thus in our case, the required distance is
d=sqrt%28%280--2%29%5E2+%2B+%280--3.46%29%5E2%29=+3.99644842328786+


For more on this concept, refer to Distance formula.


However, I do not know if the coordinates of point P are correct.