The process used to find the distance from the access panel to the mouse in Group Questions 9-10 can be mimicked to develop a generic formula for finding the distance between any two points on a graph. Let’s start with two arbitrary points, labeled
Use the Pythagorean theorem to set up an equation containing the distance d that we’re looking for. (Hint: Putting parentheses around the expression you wrote for the lengths in Question 2 is a good idea.)
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