text: Why is a plane not defined by 3 given points?
  
  Because three (non-colinear) points are needed to determine a unique plane in Euclidean geometry. Given two points, there is exactly one line that can contain them, but infinitely many planes can contain that line. Three points, as long as they don’t all lie on the same line, do determine a unique plane.
  
  Can there be 4 points on a plane?
  
  Four points (like the corners of a tetrahedron or a triangular pyramid) will not all be on any plane, though triples of them will form four different planes.
  
  Why do 2 points determine a line?
  
  Two distinct points determine exactly one line. That line is the shortest path between the two points. Bricklayers use these properties when they stretch a string from corner to corner to guide them in laying bricks.
  
  What points determine a line?
  
  Any two distinct points in a plane determine a line, which has an equation determined by the coordinates of the points.
  
  Are 2 points collinear?
  
  Any two points are always collinear because you can always connect them with a straight line. Three or more points can be collinear, but they don’t have to be. Coplanar points: A group of points that lie in the same plane are coplanar. Any two or three points are always coplanar.
  
  How do you know if 4 points are collinear?
  
  Suppose A (x1,y1), B (x2,y2), C (x3,y3) and D (x4,y4) are the four points. Find the direction ratios of each pair of points by using the formula x2-x1, y2-y1, z2-z1. These set of three numbers should be same or proportional. Then the points are collinear.
  
  How do you know if three points are collinear using distance?
  
  In general, three points A, B and C are collinear if the sum of the lengths of any two line segments among AB, BC and CA is equal to the length of the remaining line segment, that is, either AB + BC = AC or AC +CB = AB or BA + AC = BC.
  
  How do you check if points are on the same line?
  
  To determine if a point is on a line you can simply subsitute the x and y coordinates into the equation. Another way to solve the problem would be to graph the line and see if it falls on the line. Plugging in will give which is a true statement, so it is on the line.
  
  How do you tell if 2 points are on the same side of a plane?
  
  If that value of t is between 0 and 1, the line passes through the plane after leaving the origin, but before arriving at your point, so the two points are on different sides. If t<0 or t>1, then the line intersects both points either before or after intersecting the plane, so they are on the same side.
  
  Does the point lie above or below the plane?
  
  Take the dot product of the perpendicular and the coordinates of the point. If it is less than zero, the point is below the plane. If v is the vector that points ‘up’ and p0 is some point on your plane, and finally p is the point that might be below the plane, compute the dot product v⋅(p−p0).
  
  How do you check if a point is on a plane 3d?
  
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  1. Find the midpoint of one of the edges of the quad., call it Q.
  2. Construct the half infinite line from P through Q.
  3. Check where this line intersects the other three edges. If there are 0 or 2 interior intersections, then P is inside. If there are 1 or 3, then P is outside.
  
  Is the point a plane?
  
  In mathematics, a plane is a flat, two-dimensional surface that extends infinitely far. A plane is the two-dimensional analogue of a point (zero dimensions), a line (one dimension) and three-dimensional space.
  
  2021-01-07