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A student says: the line through the origin and the point (2, 2, 1) has direction cosines 2, 2 and 1. Her teacher says this is wrong. What is the mistake?
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A student says: the line through the origin and the point
(
2
,
2
,
1
)
(2, 2, 1)
(
2
,
2
,
1
)
has direction cosines
2
2
2
,
2
2
2
and
1
1
1
. Her teacher says this is wrong. What is the mistake?
The direction cosines should be
2
5
\dfrac{2}{5}
5
2
,
2
5
\dfrac{2}{5}
5
2
and
1
5
\dfrac{1}{5}
5
1
, since
2
+
2
+
1
=
5
2 + 2 + 1 = 5
2
+
2
+
1
=
5
.
The numbers are direction ratios. They must be divided by the length
3
3
3
to get the direction cosines.
A line through the origin has no direction cosines.
All direction cosines of a line through the origin must be negative.
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