What is the distance between the points (2, 3) and (7, 4)?

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Answer 1 · 2016-12-09T14:59:23

The distance between these points is $sqrt(26)$ or 5.1 rounded to the nearest tenth.

The formula for calculating the distance between two points is:

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

Substituting the points we are provided and solving gives:

$d = sqrt((7 - 2)^2 + (4 - 3)^2)$

$d = sqrt(5^2 + 1^2)$

$d = sqrt(25 + 1)$

$d = sqrt(26)$