Question

What is the approximate distance between the points (-5, 1) and (-2, 3) on a coordinate grid? A.7.81 units B.3.61 units C.2.23 units D.3.32 units

Answer 1

3.61

Explanation:

Answer 2

The formula for distance between point in a coordinate grid is the following:


`\sqrt{(x2 - x1) {}^(2) + (y2 - y1) {}^(2) }`
Where 1 and 2 stands for the points, so in your case the formula is the following

`\sqrt{( - 2 - - 5) {}^(2) + (3 - 1) }`

`\sqrt{ {3}^(2) + 2 {}^(2) }`

`√(9 + 4)`

`√(13) =3.605...`
So your answer is about 3.61