Finding the Distance Between Two Points TeacherTwins©2015
Warm Up Graph the ordered pairs on the coordinate plane.
Warm Up Answers F A E B C D
3 units What is the distance between (-5, 6) and (-2, 6)? Example 1
5 units What is the distance between (7, 1) and (7, 6)? Example 2
What is the distance between Example 3 What is the distance between (-2, 1) and (-2, -6)? 7 units 7 units
(-2, 1), (-2, -6) Find the distance between You can use absolute value to help you find the distance between two points. Find the distance between (-2, 1), (-2, -6)
Practice (-5, 8), (-5, 2) (0, 4), (5, 4) (6, 7), (6, -4) Find the distance between each pair of points. (-5, 8), (-5, 2) (0, 4), (5, 4) (6, 7), (6, -4) (-5, 5), (7, 5) 6 units 5 units 11 units 12 units
Explain how to find the distance between points Closure Explain how to find the distance between points (3, -9) and (3, 6) using absolute value.