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What is the distance between the points (-5, 3) and (3, 9)?
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- 00:01
All right More math trivia g kary for you people
- 00:05
Here we go What is the distance between the points
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Negative five three and three Nine Two Well you know
- 00:14
the formula to find the distance Putting two pulling sex
- 00:17
one by one and next to y two Well just
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- 00:19
use the distance formula this thing and by used the
- 00:22
distance formula We mean just plug in the coordinates and
- 00:24
chug away utilizing the majesty That is the distance formula
- 00:28
All right we'll use the point Negative Five three It's
- 00:30
r x one y one and assign three nine two
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x to y two And that's what it gets A
- 00:34
sti equals square root of all that We got c
- 00:37
plugging in the three and then the negative five and
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then the the minus three thing there Not too shabby
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else left to simplify So that gets us eight squared
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plus six squared which is six four plus thirty six
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which is one hundred Swear to one hundred Just ten
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Oh easy We're looking at a distance of ten right 00:00:55.064 --> [endTime] there So that's it The answer is e
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