Project 9: Distance Between Two Points

Two friends (Alana and Britney) plan to meet at a meeting place between their houses.  Alana's house is at coordinate (-2, -2).  Britney's house is at coordinate (3, 4).

The total distance that needs to be walked by the friends (the length of the segment below) is 7.81 units.

Project 9:  Assume four variables (x1, y1, x2, y2) have been initialized.  These variables refer to the coordinates of two points.  

Task: initialize a variable called 'distance' that represents the distance between the two points.  

Hint: Look at the picture above and think about the Pythagorean Theorem.

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Universal Computational Math Methods:

pow(5,2) returns 25.0

abs(-3.0) returns 3

sqrt(49.0) returns 7.0