Question

Explain another method for finding the distance between two points other than using the distance formula?

Answer 1

You can use the absolute value method to find the distance between two points that are on the same horizontal line or vertical line.

For example

The distance between

(2,-7) and (2,9).


$d= |9 - - 7| = |16| = 16$
Or

$d = | - 7 - 9| = | - 16| = 16$

Note that this does not apply to points that are not parallel to the axes.