I am on a question that asks to find the distance from a point, (4,-2,6), to the xy-plane. I was just wondering if to measure this distance I should make the other point to measure to (0,0,6) since it is on the xy-plane? and I came up with the answer sqrt(20)

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I am on a question that asks to find the distance from a point, (4,-2,6), to the xy-plane. I was just wondering if to measure this distance I should make the other point to measure to (0,0,6) since it is on the xy-plane? and I came up with the answer sqrt(20).

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topic- distance between point and plane

distance of a point from xy plane  is the z coordinate of a point.

because z coordinate itself specifies the distance of poinfrom xy plane.

and we can write xy plane as z=0

point taken by you is not in the xy plane and that is not the correct way to do.

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