What Is the Distance Formula? Instructional Video

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What Is the Distance Formula?

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Find the distance between two points on a coordinate plane. How is that done? Let's take a look at the distance formula. What's the distance formula? Well, it's a form of the Pythagorean Theorem. How? Watch the instructor diagram and explain how the distance formula is derived from the Pythagorean Theorem. It's pretty cool.

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distance, formulas, length, measurement, ordered pairs, coordinate plane, pythagorean theorem, right triangles, triangles, square roots, radicals

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distance, formula, length, Graph, square root, coordinate points, right triangle, pythagorean theorem, math

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8th - 11th

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3:01

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