Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH105/April 2012/Question 08 (i)
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Question 08 (i) |
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Short-answer question! No credit will be given for the answer (even if it is correct) without the accompanying work. Find the equation of the plane parallel to 3x-y+4z=13 passing through the point (2,1,-1). |
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What is a normal vector to the given plane? What is a normal vector of the plane you are looking for? Given a normal vector and a point, finding the equation of the plane follows a simple formula. |
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Please rate my easiness! It's quick and helps everyone guide their studies. For a plane parallel to , we can take its normal vector to be (two parallel planes have normal vectors that are scalar multiples of each other and we can just as well choose their normal vectors to be identical). Thus, the plane we seek has equation where is any point on the plane. We are told the plane passes through so we take , , and and the plane's equation is: or equivalently, . |