Find the equation of a line, that lies on a plane 2x-3y+4z=8, perpendicular to a line (x-1)/3=(y-1)/2=(z-2)/3 and passes through the point (1,2,-1)?

1 Answer
Jun 23, 2018

No such line can exist because the point (1,2,-1) does not lie on the plane 2x-3y+4z=8, therefore, the line cannot lie on the plane.

Explanation:

An additional reason why no such line can exist is that the direction of the line is vecl = 3hati+2hatj+3hatk; this means that the only planes that can have lines that intersect the given line perpendicularly must be of the form 3x+2y+3z = c where c is any real number. All other planes cannot have lines that intersect the given line perpendicularly.