1. Finding the Distance Between Two Points
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2. Warm Up
Graph the ordered pairs on the coordinate plane.

3. Warm Up Answers F A E B C D

4. 3 units What is the distance between (-5, 6) and (-2, 6)? Example 1

5. 5 units What is the distance between (7, 1) and (7, 6)? Example 2

6. What is the distance between
Example 3
What is the distance between
(-2, 1) and
(-2, -6)?
7 units
7 units

7. (-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)

8. 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

9. 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.