Distance between a point and a line
Suppose you are given a point not on the line .
What is a procedure you could use to find the distance between the point and the line ?
Answer by dragging statements from the left column to the right column and putting them in the correct order in the right column.
Note: your answer does not need to use all of the statements from the left column.
Hint: draw a picture.
Statements to choose from: Drag these statements to the right column.
- Find the vector .
- Find the vector .
- Construct the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Find the vector .
Your solution: Put the statements in order in this column and press the Submit Answers button.
Statements to choose from: Drag these statements to the right column.
- Find the vector .
- Find the vector .
- Construct the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Find the vector .
Your solution: Put the statements in order in this column and press the Submit Answers button.
Distance between a point and a plane
Suppose you are given a point not on the plane .
What is a procedure you could use to find the distance from the point to the plane ?
Hint: draw a picture.
Statements to choose from: Drag these statements to the right column.
- Find the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Find the vector .
- Find the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Construct the vector .
Your solution: Put the statements in order in this column and press the Submit Answers button.
Statements to choose from: Drag these statements to the right column.
- Find the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Find the vector .
- Find the vector .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- The desired distance is the length of .
- Construct the vector .
Your solution: Put the statements in order in this column and press the Submit Answers button.
You can earn partial credit on this problem.