Solution to Exercise 3.13.
God ever
geometrizes.
—Plato (427–347 BCE)
Exercise 3.13. Use the propositions to justify your answer for
the following.
(a) Are the points (8, 2, 1), (7, 5, 1), and (5, 11, 1) collinear?
(a) Use
Proposition 3.1, Hence, the points are collinear.
(b) Are the lines [4, 2, 3], [–3, 1, 0], and [2, –7, 3] concurrent?
(a) Use Proposition 3.2, Hence the lines are not concurrent.
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