How Do Vectors Solve Real-World Problems?

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The discussion focuses on various applications of vectors in real-world scenarios, including the spread of communicable diseases, aircraft navigation, and geometric interpretations of planes in three-dimensional space. It explores how to calculate the maximum percentage of a population affected by a disease using a specific mathematical model. Additionally, it addresses the resultant groundspeed and direction of an airplane encountering wind, as well as the intersection of a perpendicular line from a point to a plane. The conversation also clarifies the uniqueness of scalar equations for planes compared to their parametric and vector forms. Overall, the thread emphasizes the importance of vectors in solving practical problems across different fields.
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1. The Ministry of Health has determined that t day after the detection of a communicable disease, the percent P of a city’s population that will be affected is given by the equation P (t) = 10te^-0.1t 1 ≤ t ≥ 15. How many days after detection will the maximum percent of the population are infected?

2. An air plane starts out traveling 40°E of N (N40°E) at a speed of 850 km/h. It encounters a wind of 120 km/h blowing from the east; find the resultant groundspeed and the direction of the plane.

3. Determine the intersection of the perpendicular line drawn from the point A(-5, 3, 7) to the plane v = (0, 0, 2) + t(-1, 1, 3) + s(2, 0, -3) and determine the distance from point A to the plane.

4. Explain why there is one and only scalar equation of a given plane, whereas there are many different parametric and vector equations for the plane.

5. Discuss the intersection of the three planes given below. Give a geometric interpretation of the system and its solution, and also state whether the system has no solution, a unique solution, or an infinite number of solutions.

4x - 6y + 2z = 10
2x – 3y + z = 0
2x – 18y -8z = 0
 
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