Problema Solution

Find all the points on the y-axis that are distance 13 from the points (12,6).

Answer provided by our tutors

Let (0, y) represent the point of y-axis that is at distance 13 from (12, 6).

This means:

(12 - 0)^2 + (6 - y)^2 = 13^2

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y1 = 1

y2 = 11

The points on y-axis are (0, 1) and (0, 11).