The last case was special because the distance of a point from the origin is the of the sum of the of the x and y coordinates.The distance formula is just an extension of the formula to any two points in a plane.

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absolute value; square root; squares; average; midpoint; triangle area; Pythagorean

Distance and Midpoints in the Complex Plane

The last case was special because the distance of a point from the origin is the of the sum of the of the x and y coordinates.The distance formula is just an extension of the formula to any two points in a plane.

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