Question

On a coordinate plane, what is the distance between the points (-1,5) and (2,5)? Enter the answer in the box.

Answer 1

Answer:

The distance between (-1,5) and (2,5) is √9 or 3.

Step-by-step explanation:

Okay first, just for explaining purposes, let's call the ordered pair (-1,5) letter A and ordered pair (2,5) letter B.

Now to the answer. To start you use the distance formula. which is:

d=√( (x2-x1)²+(y2-y1)²)

Then you solve by plugging the ordered pairs into the formula where -1 from point A is X1 and 5 from point A is Y1. 2 from point B is X2 and 5 from point B is Y2.

When you solve it should look like this:

1. d=√( (x2-x1)²+(y2-y1)²)

2. d=√( (2- -1)²+(5-5)²) *2 minus a negative one means plus so we get 3*

3.  d=√( (3)²+(0)²)

4. d=√( 9+0)

5. √9 = 3