Solution

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Two directions within the plane are
Their cross product is , so a unit vector normal to the plane is
Its negative is equally valid. An equation of a plane through three points in vector form is
or, parametrically, . Since the coordinate sum of is one, the Cartesian equation of a plane is
The distance from a point to a plane is the absolute normal displacement, giving

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