Question

How could you find the distance between the points (-2.5, 4.5) and (1.25, 4.5)?

Answer 1

Answer: By using the distance formula

Explanation:

The distance formula can be used to find the distance between two coordinate points, as given here. They come in the order of (x, y) and you would plug in your values.

Need to solve for the distance?

Taking the formula, we will plug in the coordinate points given and solve.

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

`\displaystyle d = \sqrt{(1.25--2.5)^(2) +(4.5-4.5)^(2)}`

`\displaystyle d = \sqrt{(1.25+2.5)^(2) }`

`\displaystyle d = \sqrt{(3.75)^(2) }`

`\displaystyle d =3.75` units