Precalculus (6th Edition)

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Chapter 8 - Application of Trigonometry - 8.4 Algebraically Defined Vectors and the Dot Product - 8.4 Exercises - Page 790: 47

Answer

$7$

Work Step by Step

Our aims is to compute the dot product , for this we will multiply the corresponding components together and then add. In general, we have: $a \cdot b =a_1 b_1+a_2b_2+......$ Therefore, $a \cdot b = (6)(2)+(-2)(5)=12-5=7$
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