A plane intercepts the coordinate axes at , , and such that the centroid of the triangle formed by these intercepts is . What is the equation of the plane?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A.
- Step 1: The centroid of the triangle with vertices , , and is .
- Step 2: Equating coordinates to : , , and .
- Step 3: Write the intercept form of the plane: .
Answer
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Why not the others: uses the centroid coordinates directly as intercepts; is the plane perpendicular to the centroid vector; inverts the intercept sequence.
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