Question

What is the greatest distance from the origin?. (3,4) (-8,-5) (-9,1) or (9,-4)?

Answer 1

Answer:

(9,-4)

Explanation:

Without plotting it on a graph use Pythagorean theorem!

$c =\sqrt{a^{2} +b^{2} }$

*Squaring a negative will make it positive!

For (3,4)

$c =\sqrt{3^{2}+4^{2} }$

c = 5

For (-8,5)

c = 9.43

For (-9,1)

c = 9.06

For (9,-4)

c = 9.84

Answer 2

Answer:

(9, -4)

Explanation:

You can see by this graph, it is the furthest away from (0, 0), which is the origin.