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Vectors: planes, normals and distances
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For the plane , compare lines from the origin with directions and . Use dot products to predict whether each crosses the plane before substituting. Move the base point of the first line to without changing its direction and predict what changes. Explain how a contradiction, an identity and a single parameter solution represent the three geometric outcomes.
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