Find the distance between the two parallel planes 2x-y+z=1 and 2x-y+z=3 for both equations, if we let x and y = 0 then a point that exists on the first plane is (0, 0, 1) and for the second plane you have (0, 0, 3) distance is typically given as: distance= sqrt((x2-x1)^(2)+(y2-y1)^(2)+(z2-z1)^(2)) substituting the points of both planes we get: sqrt((0-0)^(2)+(0-0)^(2)+(3-1)^(2)) = sqrt(2^(2))=2 units, is this the correct way to go about this?

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Find the distance between the two parallel planes 2x-y+z=1 and 2x-y+z=3

for both equations, if we let x and y = 0 then a point that exists on the first plane is (0, 0, 1) and for the second plane you have (0, 0, 3) distance is typically given as:

distance= sqrt((x2-x1)^(2)+(y2-y1)^(2)+(z2-z1)^(2))

substituting the points of both planes we get:

sqrt((0-0)^(2)+(0-0)^(2)+(3-1)^(2)) = sqrt(2^(2))=2 units, is this the correct way to go about this?

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