What is the approximate distance between the points (-5,1) and (-2,3) on a coordinate grid? Show me an example please

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Mohamed Bouallegue · Answer 1 · 2018-03-31T23:42:43+0000

Answer:

$d=√(13)\ units$ or
$d=3.61\ units$

Explanation:

we know that

the formula to calculate the distance between two points is equal to

$d=\sqrt{(y2-y1)^(2)+(x2-x1)^(2)}$

$A(-5,1)\\E(-2,3)$

substitute the values

$d=\sqrt{(3-1)^(2)+(-2+5)^(2)}$

$d=\sqrt{(2)^(2)+(3)^(2)}$

$d=√(13)\ units$

$d=3.61\ units$

the graph in the attached figure