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Title: What is the distance between the points (-30, -10) and (-30, 19) in the xy-plane?
Post by: jackie1984 on Mar 24, 2023
What is the distance between the points (-30, -10) and (-30, 19) in the xy-plane?

A.
29 units
 B.
9 units
 C.
20 units
 D.
49 units


Title: Re: What is the distance between the points (-30, -10) and (-30, 19) in the xy-plane?
Post by: mike51493 on Mar 24, 2023
The two points have the same x-coordinate, so the distance between them is simply the difference in their y-coordinates:

| -10 - 19 | = |-29| = 29

Therefore, the answer is A. 29 units.