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ACT Aspire Math: Calculating A Segment's Length Using Its Endpoints 13 Views


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What is the distance between the points (-5, 3) and (3, 9)?


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All right More math trivia g kary for you people

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Here we go What is the distance between the points

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Negative five three and three Nine Two Well you know

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the formula to find the distance Putting two pulling sex

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one by one and next to y two Well just

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use the distance formula this thing and by used the

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distance formula We mean just plug in the coordinates and

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chug away utilizing the majesty That is the distance formula

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All right we'll use the point Negative Five three It's

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r x one y one and assign three nine two

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x to y two And that's what it gets A

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sti equals square root of all that We got c

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plugging in the three and then the negative five and

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then the the minus three thing there Not too shabby

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else left to simplify So that gets us eight squared

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plus six squared which is six four plus thirty six

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which is one hundred Swear to one hundred Just ten

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Oh easy We're looking at a distance of ten right 00:00:55.064 --> [endTime] there So that's it The answer is e

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