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How many planes can be made to pass through one point?
Given a line and a distinct point not lying on the line, only a single plane can be drawn through both of them as there can be only plane which can accommodate both the line and the point together. Let us take a line l and a point A, as we can see there can be only plane which pass through both of them.
How many planes are in a point?
For example if the three points are A, B and C in your diagram then there are infinitely many planes that contain the points. I have illustrated two such planes in pink in the diagrams below. The final point is that if the three points do not lie on a line then there is exactly one plane that contains the points.
Can plane have 4 points?
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. Stepping down, two points form a line, and there wil be a fan of planes with this line (like pages of an open book, with the line down the spine of the book).
How many planes can contain 2 points?
Through any two points there exists exactly one line. A line contains at least two points. If two lines intersect, then their intersection is exactly one point. Through any three non-collinear points, there exists exactly one plane.
How many planes can pass through two points?
Answer: Given two distinct points, we can draw many planes passing through them. Therefore, infinite number of planes can be drawn passing through two distinct points or two points can be common to infinite number of planes.
Can any three points be a plane?
In a three-dimensional space, a plane can be defined by three points it contains, as long as those points are not on the same line.
Are 4 points coplanar?
Coplanar points are three or more points which all lie in the same plane. Any set of three points in space is coplanar. A set of four points may be coplanar or may be not coplanar.
How many planes can pass through a line?
Points on a Line lie in a plane postulate – If two points lie on a plane, then the entire line containing those points lie on the plane. through those two points will lie on the plane. Three collinear points would indicate a single line. There are an infinite number of planes that could go through a single line.