Question

Kate is arranging new furniture in her rectangular sitting room. She has mapped the arrangement on a coordinate plane. A, B, and C represent the sofas, V1 and V2 are decorative vases and AQ represents the aquarium. Find the distance between V2 and the aquarium in Kate's sitting room.

Answer 1

v2 to AQ

v2 is at -6,-5

AQ is at 5,5

a difference of 11 right, 10 up

11^2 + 10^2 = c^2

121 + 100 = c^2

root221 = c = 14.87