Detailed solution to Problem Set 17 (non-textbook part) Exercise 3
- Question:
- Find the area of a parallelogram
if two of the vectors along its sides are
⟨−2, 3⟩ and ⟨4, 6⟩.
- Solution:
- Using the answer to Exercise 1,
|⟨−2, 3⟩ × ⟨4, 6⟩| =
|−24| = 24.
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