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)

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step-by-step explanation:

"image"

step-by-step explanation:

in most of these problems, the notation is that the point with a "prime" is the image of the point without. that is, b' is the image of b.

here, there is no dilation or reflection. there is simply translation (with no direction shown). which figure you call the "preimage" and which one you call the "image" is up to you. as a matter of convention, the naming is as described above.