Question

In a coordinate plane, a line segment has endpoints at (22, –34) and (22, 7). what is the length of the line segment?

Answer 1

Hello,

The formula for finding the distance between two points is:
$\sqrt{ (x2-x1)^{2} + (y2-y1)^{2} }$

So, we simply plug in the given coordinates into the equation to find the length of the line segment (the distance between the points).

Doing this, we get 
$\sqrt{ (22-22)^{2} + (7-(-34)^{2} }$
= 41

The length of the line segment is 41 units.

Hope this helps!