Question

What are the two ways you can find the distance between points (X1,Y1) and (x2,y2) in the coordinate

plane?

Answer 1

The first (and most typical) way to find distance of two points is by using the distance formula.

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

One alternative is the Manhattan metric, also called the taxicab metric. This option is much more complicated, and rarely used in high school math. d(x,y)=∑i|xi-yi|