Question

Find the distance between the points:

Answer 1

To calculate distance between two points we use the distance formula sqrt((x2−x1)^2+(y2−y1)^2).  

To start, we find the square of the distance between x1 and x2 and y1 and y2.  The distance between x1 and x2, or 1 and 3, is 2. The distance between y1 and y2, or 3 and -4, is 7.

Now we square 2 and 7 and add them together to get 4 + 49 = 53.

The last thing we do to find the distance is take the square root of 53. 53 is not a perfect square and is also a prime number so our answer in simplest form is still sqrt53.<span />