Let $l$ $l$ be a line described by equation ax+by+c=0 and let $P (x, y)$ $P(x,y)$ be a point not on $l$ $l$ . Express the distance, $d$ $d$ between $l and P$ $l and P$ in terms of the coefficients $a, b and c$ $a, b and c$ of the equation of line?

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Let $l$ $l$ be a line described by equation ax+by+c=0 and let $P (x, y)$ $P(x,y)$ be a point not on $l$ $l$ . Express the distance, $d$ $d$ between $l and P$ $l and P$ in terms of the coefficients $a, b and c$ $a, b and c$ of the equation of line?

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Answer 1 · 2016-11-14T19:04:58

$d = \frac{c + a x_{0} + b y_{0}}{\sqrt{a^{2} + b^{2}}}$ $d = (c + a x_0 + b y_0)/sqrt(a^2 + b^2)$

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Let $l \to a x + b y + c = 0$ $l->a x + b y + c=0$ and $p_{0} = (x_{0}, y_{0})$ $p_0 = (x_0,y_0)$ a point not on $l$ $l$ .

Supposing that $b \neq 0$ $b ne 0$ and calling $d^{2} = {(x - x_{0})}_{0}^{2} + {(y - y_{0})}_{0}^{2}$ $d^2=(x-x_0)^2+(y-y_0)^2$ after substituting $y = - \frac{a x + c}{b}$ $y=-(a x+c)/b$ into $d^{2}$ $d^2$ we have

$d^{2} = {(x - x_{0})}_{0}^{2} + {(\frac{c + a x}{b} + y_{0})}_{0}^{2}$ $d^2=(x - x_0)^2 + ((c + a x)/b + y_0)^2$ . The next step is find the $d^{2}$ $d^2$ minimum regarding $x$ $x$ so we will find $x$ $x$ such that

$\frac{d}{d x} (d^{2}) = 2 (x - x_{0}) - \frac{2 a (\frac{c + a x}{b} + y_{0})}{b} = 0$ $d/(dx)(d^2) = 2 (x - x_0) - (2 a ((c + a x)/b + y_0))/b = 0$ . This occours for

$x = \frac{b^{2} x_{0} - a b y_{0} - a c}{a^{2} + b^{2}}$ $x = (b^2 x_0 - a b y_0-a c)/(a^2 + b^2)$ Now, substituting this value into $d^{2}$ $d^2$ we obtain

$d^{2} = \frac{{(c + a x_{0} + b y_{0})}_{0}^{2}}{a^{2} + b^{2}}$ $d^2=(c + a x_0 + b y_0)^2/(a^2 + b^2)$ so

$d = \frac{c + a x_{0} + b y_{0}}{\sqrt{a^{2} + b^{2}}}$ $d = (c + a x_0 + b y_0)/sqrt(a^2 + b^2)$

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