What is the distance between $(4, 7)$ and $(-6,7)$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-02-18T10:00:00

10

the distance formula goes:
let (a,b) and (c,d) be 2 points with x coordinates a,c and y coordinates b,d respectively.

$d=sqrt((c-a)^2+(d-b)^2)$

apply the formula to the problem

$d=sqrt((-6-4)^2+(7-7)^2)$

$d=sqrt((-10)^2$

$d=sqrt(100)$

$d=10$

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What is the distance between (4, 7)(4, 7) and (-6,7) (-6,7) ?