What is the distance between the two points and in the Cartesian plane?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 5 units
- Step 1: Apply the Euclidean distance formula: .
- Step 2: Substitute coordinates: .
Answer
5 units.
Why not the others: '4 units' is only the horizontal delta ; '6 units' overestimates the hypotenuse; '7 units' is the taxicab sum .
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