Help with using the distance formula with variable

[yes guy]

POINT A: (0,0) - C(a,a)

POINT B: (a,0) - D(0,a)

i cant figure out how to solve this using the distance formula. can somone please help!!!

 

[tkhunny]

You've two points. Can you identify the corresponding x- and y- values in the two points?

 

[stapel]

POINT A: (0,0) - C(a,a)

POINT B: (a,0) - D(0,a)

i cant figure out how to solve this using the distance formula. can somone please help!!!

Are you "subtracting" points somehow? Or are you supposed to find the distances between pairs of points (which I think may be A and C, and B and D)? You mention "solving", but you don't provide any equations. What, precisely, are you supposed to be "solving"?

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