Calculus: Early Transcendentals 9th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1337613924
ISBN 13: 978-1-33761-392-7

Chapter 12 - Section 12.4 - The Cross Product - 12.4 Exercises - Page 862: 33

Answer

$9$

Work Step by Step

Volume of a parallelepiped is defined as: $V=|a \cdot (b \times c)|$ $b \times c= \lt -1,1,2 \gt \times \lt 2,1,4 \gt=\lt 2,8,-3 \gt$ $|a \cdot (b \times c)|= |\lt 1,2,3 \gt \cdot \lt 2,8,-3 \gt |$ $=|1 \cdot2+2 \cdot 8+ 3 \cdot (-3)|$ $=|2+16+(-9)|$ $=9$
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