Practice questions on Week 1 Lecture (d) Draw a rectangular box with the origin

and (3, 4, 5) as opposite vertices and with

1. Suppose you start at the origin, move its faces parallel to the coordinate planes.
along the x-axis a distance of 6 units in the Label all vertices of the box. Find the
positive direction, and then move length of the diagonal of the box.
downward a distance of 7 units. What are
the coordinates of your position?

2. Use the given points to answer the

following questions.

P(1, 2, 3), Q(-9, -1, 1), R(0, 4, 7)

(a) Which of the points is closest to the xz-

plane?

4. (a) Describe the surface in 3

represented by the equation x + y = 2.
(b) Which point lies in the yz-plane?

This is the set This is the set

{(x, 2 − x, z)|x , {(x, 2 − x, z)|x ,
z } which is a z } which is a
3. Consider the point: (3, 4, 5) vertical plane that horizontal plane that
intersects the xz- intersects the xz-
(a) What is the projection of the point on plane in the line y plane in the line y =
the xy-plane? = 2 − x, z = 0. 2 − x, z = 0.

This is the This is the set

set {(x, 2 − x, z)|x {(x, 2 − x, z)|x ,
(b) What is the projection of the point ,z } which z } which is a
on the yz-plane? is a vertical plane horizontal plane that
that intersects the intersects the xy-
xy-plane in the line plane in the line y =
y = 2 − x, z = 0. 2 − x, z = 0.

(c) What is the projection of the point This is the set

on the xz-plane? {(x, y, 2 − x − y)|x
,y }which
is a vertical plane
that intersects the
xy-plane in the line
y = 2 − x, z = 0.

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4 (b) Select the surface described in (a). 6. Find the lengths of the sides of the
triangle PQR where P, Q, and R are:
P(4, −1, 0), Q(6, 0, 2), R(7, −2, 0)

|𝑃𝑄| =

|𝑅𝑃 | =

|𝑄𝑅| =

5. (a) What does the equation x = 6

represent in 2?
What kind of triangle does this form? Right
angle/isosceles. Justify your answer.

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(b) What does it represent in ?

7. Find the distance from the given point to

each of the following.
(c) What does the equation y = 4 (5, 7, -5)
represent in 3?
(a) the xy-plane (b) the yz-plane

(c) the xz-plane

(d) What does z = 8 represent?

(d) the x-axis

(e) What does the pair of equations
y = 4, z = 8 represent? In other words,
describe the set of points (x, y, z) such
that y = 4 and z = 8.

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(e) the y-axis

10. Describe in words the region of 3

represented by the inequality : 0 ≤ z ≤ 4
(f) the z-axis
The inequality 0 ≤ z ≤ 4 represents all
points ____________ the
_______________ planes z = 0 (the _____
- plane ) and z = 4.

11. Describe in words the region of 3

represented by the equations : x2 + y2 = 16,
8. Find an equation of the sphere z = −7
determined by the given information:
Because z = −7, all points in the region
Passes through the point (6, 1, -3), with
centre (5, 8, 5) must lie in the __________ plane z = −7.
In addition, x2 + y2 = 16, so the region
consists of all points that lie on
_________________________________
and center on the ____ - axis that is
contained in the plane z = −7.

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12. Describe in words the region of
represented by the equations or
inequalities :
x2 + z2 ≤ 64

Here x2 + z2 ≤ 64 or equivalently

9. Write the sphere in standard form. √𝑥 2 + 𝑧 2 ≤ 8 which describes the set of

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all points in whose distance from the
2 2 2
𝑥 + 𝑦 + 𝑧 − 2𝑥 + 4𝑦 − 2𝑧 = 10
_____ -axis is at most _______ . Thus, the
inequality represents the region consisting
of all points on or inside a _____________
of radius ________ with axis the ______
- axis.

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13. Sketch the region given by the set. 15. Name all the equal vectors in the
{(x, y) | x ≥ 3 and y < 5} parallelogram shown.

AB is equal to _____?

DA is equal to _____?

14. Are the following quantities vectors or DE is equal to _____?

scalars? Explain.
EA is equal to _____?
(a) The cost of a theater ticket
16. Use the given points to answer the
The cost of a theater ticket is a ________ following questions. A(-3, 3), B(5, 1)
because it has
________________________ . (a) Find a vector a with representation
given by the directed line segment ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗
𝐴𝐵
(b) The current in a river

The current in a river is a ________

because it has
_______________________________ .

(c) The initial flight path from Houston to

Dallas ⃗⃗⃗⃗⃗ and the equivalent
(b) Draw 𝐴𝐵
representation starting at the origin.
The initial flight path from Houston to
Dallas is a _____________ because it has

________________________ .

(d) The population of the world

The population of the world is a

___________ because it has

_______________________ .

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17. Use the given points to answer the (b) Illustrate geometrically.
following questions. A(0, 4, 5), B(1, 4, -4)

(a) Find a vector a with representation

given by the directed line segment from A
to B.

(b) Draw the line segment from A to B and

the equivalent representation starting at the 19. Use the given vectors to answer the
origin. following questions.
‹0, 2, 3›, ‹0, 0, -5›
(a) Find the sum of the vectors.

(b) Illustrate geometrically.

18. Use the given vectors to answer the

following questions. ‹-3, 5›, ‹6, -2›
(a) Find the sum of the vectors.

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20. Find each of the following given a =
‹3, -4›, b = ‹-5, 2› (b) 4a + 5b

(a) a + b

(c) | a |
(b) 4a + 5b

(c) | a | (d) | a - b |

(d) | a - b |

22. Find each of the following given :

a = i + 4j - 3k and b = -4i - j + 2k
(a) a + b

21. Find each of the following given a

= 2i + j and b = i - 4j

(a) a + b
(b) 3a + 4b

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(c) | a | 25. Find a vector that has the same
direction as the given vector but has length
9.
‹-2, -2, 4›

(d) | a - b |

23. Find a unit vector that has the same

direction as the given vector : a = −3i + 7j

26. If v lies in the first quadrant and makes

an angle of π/6 with the positive x-axis
and | v | = 6, find v in component form.

24. Find a unit vector that has the same

direction as the given vector. ‹-1, 2, 3›

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27. If a child pulls a sled through the snow 29. If r = < x, y, z > and r0 = < x0 , y0,
on a level path with a force of 30 N z0 > , describe the set of all points (x, y, z)
exerted at an angle of 38° above the such that |r − r0|2 = 4. The set of points is
horizontal, find the horizontal and vertical a
components of the force. (Round your
answers to one decimal place.)

30. Two points P and Q are given. P(2, 1,

0), Q(−1, 2, −4)
(a) Plot P and Q.

28. Find the magnitude of the resultant

force and the angle it makes with the
positive x-axis. (Let a = 100 N and b = 400
N. Round your answers to one decimal
place.)

(b) Find the distance between P and Q.

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 is the dot product of _________________ .
31. Express the vector v with initial point
P and terminal point Q in component form. (e) a · b + c
(Assume that each point lies on the a · b + c has ______________ because it
gridlines.)
is the sum of _____________________ .

(f) |a| · (b + c)
|a| · (b + c) has _____________ because

it is the dot product of _______________ .

33. Find a · b.
|a| = 3, |b| = √14 , the angle between a
and b is 45°

32. Which of the following expressions are

meaningful? Which are meaningless?
Explain.
(a) (a · b) · c

(a · b) · c has _____________because it is

the dot product of ___________________.

34. Find a · b.
(b) (a · b)c
|a| = 8, |b| = 9, the angle between a and
b is 2π/3
(a · b)c has _____________ because it is a

scalar multiple of ___________________ .

(c) |a|(b · c)

|a|(b · c) has _____________ because it is

the product of ______________________ .

(d) a · (b + c)

a · (b + c) has ____________ because it

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35. Find a · b.
a = < -4, 5 > , b = < 0.9, 1.2 > 39. Find a · b.
a = 2i + 2j − k, b = −4i + 8k

36. Find a · b.
1 40. If u is a unit vector, find u · v and
a = 〈−5, 4〉, b = < -5, 8>
u · w. (Assume v and w are also unit
vectors.)

37. Find a · b. 𝒖∙𝒗 =

a = <p, - p, 3p >, b = <2q, - q, -q >,

38.Find a · b. 𝒖∙𝒘 =
a = 3i + j, b = i − 9j + k

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41. Find the angle between the vectors. 43. Determine whether the given vectors
(Round your answer to the nearest degree.) are orthogonal, parallel, or neither.
a = ‹-8, 6›, b = ‹√21, 2› (a) a = < - 6, 5 ,5 > , b = < 9, -7, 1 >

42. Find the angle between the vectors.

(Round your answer to the nearest degree.) (b) a = < 2, 6 >, b = <-3, 1 >
a = j + k , b = i + 5j - 2k

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(c) a = −i + 4j + 4k, b = 12i + 4j − k 44. For what values of b are the given
vectors orthogonal?
‹-12, b, 3›, ‹b, b2, b› (Note, there is
more than one value, find all three)

(d) a = 8i + 2j − 6k, b = −12i − 3j + 9k

45. Find the scalar and vector projections

of b onto a.
a = ‹1, 3›, b = ‹-4, 1›

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