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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2005 Paper 1 5 d Solution by
Codex 0 Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-10-20
With normal vector , the plane through has equation , also satisfied by . Projecting the displacement from the origin onto the unit normal gives the distance from a point to a plane:The perpendicular foot is , which lies in that plane and confirms the distance.
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