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Distance between two points calculator


Find the distance between the given pairs of points.



Distance Between two Points calculator calculates the distance between two given points co-ordinates (x1 , y1) and (x2 , y2) in the XY plane by applying the pythagorean theorem.

Distance Formula

d = √ (x2 – x1)2 + (y2 - y1)2

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To find the distance between two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2),

we first get the distance of x and y axis as :
x = (x2 - x1) and y = (y2 - y1).

now we apply the formula of Pythagorean theorem.

$$ distance = \sqrt{ x^{2} + y^{2}} $$

Let's take the example as given coordinates for two points as:

one point is (1 , 3) and second point is (8 , 6)

we will find the distance of x and y axis as follows:

$$x = (8 - 1) = 7$$ $$y = (6 - 3) = 3$$ $$ distace = \sqrt {(7)^{2} + (3)^{2}} $$ $$ = \sqrt {49 + 9}$$ $$ = \sqrt {58}$$