Precalculus (6th Edition) Blitzer

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Chapter 6 - Section 6.6 - Vectors - Exercise Set - Page 782: 55

Answer

$-60$.

Work Step by Step

Put $u=-2i+3j,v=6i-j$, $w=-3i$ in the expression ${{\left\| u+v \right\|}^{2}}-{{\left\| u-v \right\|}^{2}}$. Then, $\begin{align} & {{\left\| u+v \right\|}^{2}}-{{\left\| u-v \right\|}^{2}}={{\left\| -2i+3j+6i-j \right\|}^{2}}-\left\| -2i+3j-\left( 6i-j \right) \right\| \\ & ={{\left\| 4i+2j \right\|}^{2}}-{{\left\| -8i+4j \right\|}^{2}} \end{align}$ Therefore $\begin{align} & {{\left\| u+v \right\|}^{2}}-{{\left\| u-v \right\|}^{2}}={{4}^{2}}+{{2}^{2}}-\left( {{\left( -8 \right)}^{2}}+{{4}^{2}} \right) \\ & =16+4-64-16 \\ & =20-80 \\ & =-60 \end{align}$
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