How do you find the distance between the points (0, 0), (5,12)?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-21T05:05:56

The distance between the two points is $13$

The formula for calculating the distance between two points is:

$d = sqrt((x_2 - x_1)^2 + (y_2 - y_1)^2)$

Substituting the two given points from the problem let's us write:

$d = sqrt((5 - 0)^2 + (12 - 0)^2)$

We can now solve as follows:

$d = sqrt(5^2 + 12^2)$

$d = sqrt(25 + 144)$

$d = sqrt(169)$

$d = 13$