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Question 10 (OR 1 st question)

Find the area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are represented by the vectors a = 2i  – 3j  + 4k and b = 2i – j + 2k

We use the Area of Parallelogram formula with Diagonals


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Question 10 (OR 1st question) Find the area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are represented by the vectors 𝑎 ⃗ = 2𝑖 ̂ – 3𝑗 ̂ + 4𝑘 ̂ and 𝑏 ⃗ = 2𝑖 ̂ – 𝑗 ̂ + 2𝑘 ̂ Area of parallelogram with diagonals Area = 1/2 |(𝑑_1 ) ⃗×(𝑑_2 ) ⃗ | Given Diagonals of a parallelogram as 𝑎 ⃗ = 2𝑖 ̂ – 3𝑗 ̂ + 4𝑘 ̂ and 𝑏 ⃗ = 2𝑖 ̂ – 𝑗 ̂ + 2𝑘 ̂ Area of the parallelogram = 1/2 |𝑎 ⃗×𝑏 ⃗ | Finding 𝒂 ⃗ × 𝒃 ⃗ 𝑎 ⃗ × 𝑏 ⃗ = |■8(𝑖 ̂&𝑗 ̂&𝑘 ̂@2&−3&4@2&−1&2)| = 𝑖 ̂ ((–3) × 2 – (-1) × 4) − 𝑗 ̂ (2 × 2 − 2 × 4) + 𝑘 ̂ (2 × (-1) − 2 × (-3)) = 𝑖 ̂ (-6 + 4) − 𝑗 ̂ (4 – 8) + 𝑘 ̂ (–2 + 6) = 𝑖 ̂ (−2) - 𝑗 ̂ (−4) + 𝑘 ̂ (4) = –2𝑖 ̂ + 4𝑗 ̂ + 4𝑘 ̂ So, Magnitude of 𝑎 ⃗ × 𝑏 ⃗ = √((−2)2+(4)2+(4)2) |𝑎 ⃗" × " 𝑏 ⃗ | = √(4+16+16) |𝑎 ⃗" × " 𝑏 ⃗ |= √36 |𝑎 ⃗" × " 𝑏 ⃗ |= 6 Thus, Area of the parallelogram = 1/2 |𝑎 ⃗×𝑏 ⃗ | = 1/2 × 6 = 3 square units

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Davneet Singh has done his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has been teaching from the past 14 years. He provides courses for Maths, Science and Computer Science at Teachoo