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ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

to represent a plane, you need `normal vector` and a `point`

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

cross the direction vectors of given lines for `normal vector`

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

yes cross product gives you the normal

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

are you dont with question 1 ?

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

*done

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

looks good!

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

two vectors are perpendicular iff the dot product is 0

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

direction vector of first line : <k, 2, k-1> direction vector of second line : <-2, -1, 1>

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

take their dot product, set it equal to 0 and solve k

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

change the given lines to parametric form

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

x-1/k = y-2/2 = z+1/k-1 and x+3/-2 = z/1, y=-1

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

\[\large \rm \dfrac{x-1}{\color{red}{k}} = \dfrac{y-2}{\color{Red}{2}} = \dfrac{z+1}{\color{red}{k-1}}\]

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

in symmetric form of line, the bottom stuff givs u the direction vector

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

k=3 is correct!

ganeshie8 (ganeshie8):

np:)

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