What is the distance between the points and ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A.
- Step 1: Use the Euclidean distance formula: .
- Step 2: Substitute: .
Answer
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Why not the others: '' considers only the horizontal component; '' adds the differences ; '' computes an incorrect square root.
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