Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2012 / Paper 2 / 14 / a / i / Solution

Use outward normal vectors to the two faces. The cross productspoint away from the opposite vertices, since ${\mathbf{n}}_1\cdot \overrightarrow{OQ}=-3$ and ${\mathbf{n}}_2\cdot \overrightarrow{OP}=-3$. Their Euclidean norms are $3$ and $\sqrt{6}$, and their dot product is $-6$. The interior dihedral angle of a convex polyhedron is supplementary to the outward-normal angle, soThis also equals the cosine of the acute angle between the unoriented face planes. The outward-normal angle itself has cosine $-\sqrt{2/3}$; keeping that distinction avoids a sign ambiguity.