What is the shortest distance between the lines and ?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. 2
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Magnitude is .
Magnitude is .
- Step 1: The lines are given in vector form with points and , and direction vectors and .
- Step 2: Compute the cross product :
- Step 3: Form vector .
- Step 4: Compute the scalar triple product: .
- Step 5: The shortest distance between two skew lines is .
Answer
2.
Why not the others: is the unnormalized numerator, omitting division by the direction vector cross-product magnitude.
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