Walk through deriving a general formula for the distance between two points. Distance x 2 x 1 2 y 2 y 1 2. All you need to do is plug the coordinates in very carefully.
Given two points x 1 y 1 x 2 y 2 the formula for distance is calculated with the following formula.
Mathematically if you want to determine the distance between two points on a coordinate plane you use the distance formula. All you need to do is plug the coordinates in very carefully. The method we used in the last example leads us to the formula to find the distance between the two points x1 y1 and x2 y2. Distance 116 4 29 229.