Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2021/8/d/solution

Taking cross products of the two independent spanning vectors gives plane normal vectors proportional to and . Their cross product is , so the intersection is the line , with . The closest point to is its orthogonal projection,
The squared distance is , giving
Both plane normals are orthogonal to , and , checking the geometric constraints.

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