Lesson 1

Distance Between Two

(2) Points
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Quick Explaination:
When we know the horizontal and vertical
distances between two points we can calculate Distance
the straight line distance like this:
the length of a
distance = straight line
segment that
links the 2 points
Imagine you know the location of two points (A and B)
like here.

What is the distance between them?

We can run lines down from A, and along from B, to

make a .

And with a little help from  we know that:

a2 + b2 = c2
Now label the  of points A and B.

xA means the x-coordinate of point AyA means the y-

coordinate of point A

The horizontal distance a is (xA − xB)

The vertical distance b is (yA − yB)

 Now we can solve for c (the distance between the points):

Start with:Put in the calculations

c2 = a2 + b2
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for a and b:
c2 = (xA − xB)2 + (yA − yB)2
Square root of both sides:

Done!

Example 1:

Solution:
 Example 2:

Solution:
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