>>4990300The distance formula is just the Pythagorean theorem with absolute distances between two coordinates. It carries onto even higher dimension unit vectors and if you want the distance of two points in a space you just repeat the formula again with the previous distance squared, with the new perpendicular distance and repeat.
Honestly they should be teaching this to elementary students, don't know why they want brainlet alumini at colleges.
You can just read the fundemental theorem of algebra, walk through the derivations of general quadraics, cubics, and quintics equations, practice on conic sections, dividing and multiplying polynomials, and finish it with logarithms.
Richard Delaware has a series of videos on UMKC's youtube channel that cover the entire course. Calculus and Linear algebra are where almost all practical natural sciences reside.