Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The distance formula states that the distance between two points and
is
.
The two points we have are and
. Plugging these numbers into the distance formula, we have
.
Simplifying with order of operations, first using the distributive property, gives
.
Squaring and adding gives
which is the answer in simplest form. This also rounds to about 12.04.
Scientific notation is a way to write compactly numbers with lots of digits, either because they're very large (like 2393490000000000000000000), or very small (like 0.0000000000356).
We use powers of ten to describe all those leading/trailing zeros, so that we con concentrate on the significat digits alone.
In your case, the "important" part of the number is composed by the digits 6 and 1, all the other digits are zero. But how many zeroes? Well, let's do the computation.
Every power of 10, is written as one zero followed by n zeroes, so we have
Multiplying a number by means to shift the decimal point to the right and/or add trailing zeroes n times. So, we have to repeat this process six times. We shift the decimal point to the right one position, and then add the five remaning zeroes. The result is thus
