Given the two points x1 y1 and x2 y2 the distance d between these points is given by the formula. The distance formula is derived from the Pythagorean theorem. The second term drops out because vi 0 so all you have to do is plug in the numbers.
Distance Formula The Distance Formula squares the differences between the two x coordinates and two y coordinates then adds those squares and finally takes their square root to get the total distance along the diagonal line.
D sqrt x_2 - x_12 y_2 - y_12 d x2. Now we have the speed and time of the golf cart in ms and s respectively. Formula for distance is used to measure how far the objects are on a given line. D 750 ms 600 s d 750 600.