Finding Components of a Vector in a 3D Space

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This might be a very stupid question but I can't come up with an answer, I hope you might help. So, I have two vector in a 3D space \vec x and \vec x^\prime. I know that a certain quantity \vec a is defined along the radial direction between the first vector with respect to the second. What are the x-,y- and z-component of the vector \vec a?
 
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i think you need to describe the question more, in particular what is "defined along the radial direction between the first vector with respect to the second"

Is this a mechanics/dynamics question?

It often helps to write exactly how it is written
 
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