People usually forget a formula to find a distance between two points. The thing is that, you don\u2019t need to memorize the formula if you know where the formula comes from.<\/p>\n
The key essence to find the distance between two point is Pythagorean Theorem. If you have a right triangle, the square of hypotenuse is equal to sum of squares of other two sides.
\na^2 + b^2 = c^2<\/p>\n
If you know this equation you don\u2019t needs to worry about formula for the distance between two points.
\nFor example, let\u2019s find the distance between (2,4) and (5,8).<\/p>\n
You should connect these two points, then the length of the line should equal to distance between two points.
\nThen you should make a right triangle with the line as a hypotenuse.<\/p>\n
(5,8) | Like this. Then you can easily get the other two sides. By subtracting.<\/p>\n One side is 5 \u2013 2 = 3 So now, you got a right triangle with two sides, so you can easily find the hypotenuse. Previously, I said the hypotenuse is the distance between two points, so the distance between two point (2,4) and (5,8) is 5.<\/p>\n The general formula for getting distance between (a,b) and (c,d) is <\/p>\n This article was written for you by Edmond<\/strong>, one of the tutors with SchoolTutoring Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People usually forget a formula to find a distance between two points. The thing is that, you don\u2019t need to memorize the formula if you know where the formula comes from. The key essence to find the distance between two point is Pythagorean Theorem. If you have a right triangle, the square of hypotenuse is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[223,806,1026,1100,2164],"class_list":["post-5209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geometry","tag-calculating-distance","tag-how-do-i-measure-triangles","tag-length-of-hypotenuse","tag-measuring-between-points","tag-what-is-a-hypotenuse"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schooltutoring.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n__….<\/span>|\u00a0
\n(2,4)|__ (5,4)<\/p>\n
\nThe other side is 8 \u2013 4 = 4<\/p>\n
\nHypotenuse = square root of (3^2 + 4^2) = square root of 25 = 5<\/p>\n
\nR = square root of ((c-a)^2 + (d-b)^2)
\nWhere R is the distance between two points.<\/p>\n