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-Theـــــــــــــــــــــــ formula is $\mathrm { d } = \sqrt { \left( \mathrm { x } _ { 2 } - \mathrm { x } _ { 1 } \right) ^ { 2 } + \left( \mathrm { y } _ { 2 } - \mathrm { y } _ { 1 } \right) ^ { 2 } }$.
A) distance
B) midpoint
C) conjugate
D) index

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-Theـــــــــــــــــــــــ formula is $\mathrm { d } = \sqrt { \left( \mathrm { x } _ { 2 } - \mathrm { x } _ { 1 } \right) ^ { 2 } + \left( \mathrm { y } _ { 2 } - \mathrm { y } _ { 1 } \right) ^ { 2 } }$.
A) distance 
B) midpoint 
C) conjugate 
D) index

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The formula given is the distance formula, which calculates the distance between two points $(x_1, y_1)$ and $(x_2, y_2)$ in a Cartesian coordinate system.

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