Question

Brian sets up the distance formula to find the length, d, of the line segment. His work is shown. What error, if any, did Brian make?


A. He subtracted the coordinates instead of adding them to get the distance terms.
B. The point he chose to draw the legs of the triangle does not form a right angle.
C. He incorrectly found , instead of .
D. He incorrectly squared each distance term.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is B

Step-by-step explanation:

B

Answer 2

The length, d, of the line segment is found incorrectly as Brian incorrectly applied the formula.

Distance Formula

What is distance formula?

As its name implies, distance formula provides the distance (the length of the line segment). The length of the line segment that connects two places, for instance, is the distance between them.

Calculate the distance between two points:

The distance between coordinate P  $(x_{1},y_{1} )$  and coordinate Q $(x_{2} ,y_{2} )$  is calculated using the distance formula.

$d=\sqrt{(x_{2}-x_{1} )^{2} +(y_{2}-y_{1} )^{2}}$

where, d is the distance between two points of line segment.

Corrected distance formula for given coordinates:

$d=\sqrt{((-3)-x_{1} )^{2} +(y_{2}-0 )^{2}}$

Therefore, it can be said that the values taken by the Brain are incorrect.

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