How do you find the distance, to the nearest ten from T(7,-1) to W(-2, 6)?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-12T01:18:14

Use the distance formula to solve this problem. See full process below:

The formula for calculating the distance between two points is:

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

Substituting the two points from the problem gives:

$d = sqrt((color(red)(-2) - color(blue)(7))^2 + (color(red)(6) - color(blue)(-1))^2)$

$d = sqrt((color(red)(-2) - color(blue)(7))^2 + (color(red)(6) + color(blue)(1))^2)$

$d = sqrt((-9)^2 + (7)^2)$

$d = sqrt(81 + 49)$

$d = sqrt(130)$

$d = 11.4$