Intersecting planes, distances and a family of parallel planes
Consider three planes defined by the equations , and .
Find the point of intersection of the three planes.
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Find a vector that gives the direction of the line of intersection of the planes and .
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Find a set of parametric equations that give the coordinates of the points that lie on this line of intersection.
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Find the shortest distance from the point to the plane .
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Consider a family of planes, , with equation , where .
Show that the plane is parallel to each member of .
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Find all values of for which the shortest distance between plane and the plane of the form is .
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