What is the distance of the point from the line ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. 14/13
- Step 1: Calculate the distance using .
- Step 2: Evaluating the numerator gives , and the denominator is .
- Step 3: Dividing gives .
Answer
14/13.
Why not the others: 15/13 uses an incorrect distance denominator or incorrect numerator coefficient or dropped term; 14 computes the numerator without dividing by ; 1 computes the numerator without dividing by .
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