IB skill practice

Use vector areas and volumes

Use cross products or scalar triple products to calculate areas and volumes.

Paper 1, Paper 2 5 marks Difficulty 3

Use vector areas and volumes - visual perpendicular check

A vector parallelepiped has base area 12 and perpendicular height 2. Enter its volume.

Worked practice: result and interpretation

Calculate the requested result first, then choose the interpretation that follows from it.