Question

a. Find and explain the error in the work shown.
b. Fix the error and show work with the correct result.

Answer 1

The error is that they had placed the numbers in the wrong placeholder. Remember that the Distance formula is $D=\sqrt{(x_2-x_1)^2+(y_2-y_1)^2}$ .

Correct Work:

$D=\sqrt{(5-(-1))^2+(16-15)^2}\\D=\sqrt{6^2+1^2}\\D=\sqrt{36+1}\\D=\sqrt{37}\ \approx 6.08$