The explanation: https://www.mathsisfun.com/multiplying-negatives.html
There are several different explanations on this page; they're all simple to understand.
I found the answer my teacher gave me:
A(2,0); let B be the point of coordinates (x,√x)With x≥0
The formula to calculate the distance between to points M(xM,yM) and N(xN,yN) is MN=√(xN−xM)2+(yN−yM)2
So AB=√(x−2)2+(√x−0)2AB2=(x−2)2+√x2AB2=x2−4x+4+x=x2−3x+4
We end up with a quadratic polynomial (the expression has the form ax2+bx+c, here a=1, b=-3 and c=4). Since a=1>0, the polynomial has a minimum. The formula to calculate the extremum E (minimum or maximum) of a quadratic polynomial ax2+bx+c is E=−b2a
So the x coordinate of the minimum M of the polynomial (the x coordinate of B) is 32=1.5
And the minimum (y coordinate of B) is √3/2
So the coordinates of B are (32;√3/2)
Ah, and I'm silly too, I never found a distance AB of 1.25; here's the result I got:
AB=√(xB−xA)2+(yB−yA)2AB=√(32−2)2+(√32−0)2AB=√14+32=√74
So heureka your result for distance seems to be wrong, but I didn't take away some points because I didn't ask for the distance in the question; you gave me the correct coordinates of B, so that's OK.