Science:Math Exam Resources/Courses/MATH105/April 2015/Question 01 (a)
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Question 01 (a) |
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Find an equation of the plane parallel to the plane passing through the point |
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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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Solution |
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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, so without loss of generality we may assume their normal vectors are identical). Thus, the plane we seek has equation where is any point on the plane. We are told that the plane passes through so we take , , and to obtain: , or equivalently, . |