SOLUTION: Which vector is perpendicular to both vectors A and B?

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Question 1172375: Which vector is perpendicular to both vectors A and B?
Answer by ikleyn(52840)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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I will give you  2  (two,  TWO)  answers,  both are equally correct.


    1.  A vector in 3D space, perpendicular to the plane in 3D, spanned over vectors A and B.



    2.  The vector product of the vectors A and B,  standardly notated as [A x B].


Choose any of these two answers.




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