your friend claims that because you can find the distance from a point to a line, you should be able to find the distance between any two lines. Is your friend correct? Explain your reasoning.

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  yes

Step-by-step explanation:

Yes, you can find the distance between two lines using the formula for the distance to a line.

In general, the notion of distance between two lines only make sense when the lines are parallel.

The usual formula for the distance between a point (x, y) and the line ...

  ax +by +c = 0

is ...

  d = |ax +by +c|/√(a^2 +b^2)

Two lines that are parallel will differ only in their values of 'c'. That is, if the two lines are ...

we can arrive at the formula by considering a point (x, y) such that it satisfies the equation for line 2: ax +by +c2 = 0. The distance of that point from line 1 will be ...

  d = |ax +by +c1|/√(a^2 +b^2)

Since we can add or subtract 0 from anything without changing its value, we choose to subtract 0 from the numerator:

  d = |(ax +by +c1) -(ax +by +c2)|/√(a^2 +b^2)

Simplifying gives ...

  d = |c1 -c2|/√(a^2 +b^2)

30 miles

step-by-step explanation:

we know that 60 seconds equals 1 minute and 60 minutes 1 hour

44 ft       60 sec     60 min     158400   ft

  *   *   =

1 sec       1 min       1 hour         hour

we know that there are 5280 ft per mile

158400   ft       1 mile         30 miles

  *   =

1   hour               5280 ft     1 hour

so in 1 hour   it can travel 30 miles