What is the distance from point A (-2, 1) to point B (1, 3)?

1 Answer
Dec 2, 2017

13

Explanation:

To solve this problem we will use the distance formula:

(x2x1)2+(y2y1)2

We just plug in our two given points.
It doesn't matter which you choice to be (x2,y2) or (x1,y1)

For this case I'll let point B = (x2,y2) and point A = (x1,y1)

(1(2))2+(31)2

(3)2+(2)2 = 13