SOLUTION: How to write the equation of the line, when the 3 planes (with equations below) intersect in a line if k=-2? x+y+z=0 kx+y-2z=-6 2y+(k+2)z=k-2 I found the value of k=-2, but no

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Question 1116903: How to write the equation of the line, when the 3 planes (with equations below) intersect in a line if k=-2?
x+y+z=0
kx+y-2z=-6
2y+(k+2)z=k-2
I found the value of k=-2, but not sure how to write the equation of the line.
1) rectangular form 2) vector form.
Thank you.

Answer by ikleyn(52788)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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At k= -2 your system has the form

  x +  y +  z = 0
-2x +  y - 2z = -6
      2y      = -4.


Last equation gives y = -2  and, after substituting this value of y into two other equations, gives you the system 

  x +  z =  2
-2x - 2z = -4 


It is equivalent to the system

  x + z = 2
  x + z = 2,


Which is, actually, ONE equation

  x + z = 2.


Thus the equations in 3D space of the straight line under the question are these two equations

   y = -2,
   x + z = 2.


It is the answer in rectangular form.


In vector form the parametric equation for this straight line is 

   V(t) = (t,-2,2-t),  where t is the parameter  (= any real number).

Solved.


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