Question

I already put square root 233 but it’s wrong and so is 15.2 and 15.3 and 15. So someone please help me to get the right answer cause I tried and now I have only one attempt

Answer 1

d =
`√(89)`

Explanation:

to calculate the distance d use the distance formula

d =
`\sqrt{(x_(2)-x_(1))^2+(y_(2)-y_(1))^2 }`

with (x₁, y₁ ) = (- 4, - 1 ) and (x₂, y₂ ) = (1, - 9 )

d =
`√((1-(-4))^2+(- 9-(-1))^2)`

=
`√((1+4)^2+(-9+1)^2)`

=
`√(5^2+(-8)^2)`

=
`√(25+64)`

=
`√(89)`