Alice the alien is visiting planet earth to acquire a cow specimen for her terrestrial research. she has landed her ship in a pasture. the ship's sensors are giving the coordinates of the surrounding cows in meters (detailed below). the ship is located at the origin of the coordinate system. cow a is at point (6,8) cow b is at point (-4,9) cow c is at point (7,7)
if she wants to choose the cow closest to her, which cow should she choose?

This is how to do it.

Use the distance formula for points to find the distance from the origin to points A, B, and C. The shortest distance is the answer you are searching for. Try it!

step-by-step explanation:

once you graph it hit 2nd (the blue button) and graph

that takes you to a table of coordinates

on the left is x coordinates and on the right is y coordinates and an empty box

(you may have to scroll up/down in order to get ( x, 0)

to find the total number of combinations, multiply the quantity of each item by each other:

2 pairs of shoes x 3 pairs of shorts = 6 different combinations.