parallel lines

[Primarygun]

IF a and b are on different planes A and B,

A//B

must a//b?

[matt grime]

Draw a picture. Hint, you may as well suppose that A and B are in fact the same plane.

[Primarygun]

I infer that they may not be parallel.

Is it correct?

[matt grime]

Can you draw two non-parallel lines in parallel planes? Of course you can. (Note, in 3-d the definition of parallel is that the minimal distance from a point on one line to the other line is constant; it is not that the lines do not intersect.)

[Rajdilawar S]

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No they are not always parallel. As there is no such condition that if planes are parallel then the points/ lines on them are parallel.

[BigMoosie]

They will either be parallel or skew (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SkewLines.html).

 

Edit: Url fixed, thanks swansont.

[swansont]

They will either be parallel or skew (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SkewLines.html)[/url'].

 

 

 

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SkewLines.html

 

(Markup tag topology error. You have a parenthesis in your url.)

[Primarygun]

ok thanks guys.