its Cmedea66 wrote:Would the distance in this case be just the differences in the X and Y values?
in coordinate geometry distance between 2 points is given by
Sqrt [ ( x2-x1)^2 + (y2-y1)^2 ]
in our context it can be written as
sqrt [( c-a)^2 + ( d-b)^2 ]
hence we need both the statements
hope that helps..
