Solution to Exercise 3.12.
Common
sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
Exercise 3.12. Find the point of intersection of the lines [–2, 4,
–3] and [3, –5, 2].
By Proposition 3.2, Evaluate the determinant to obtain –7l1 – 5l2 – 2l3 =0. Since we need the third coordinate of a point to be 1, we divide by –2 to obtain Rewrite as a matrix equation Thus, the point of intersection is
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