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Find a vector in the direction of which has magnitude of 6 units.

Given that

The unit vector of any vector can be written as



Let the required vector be .


Any vector () with magnitude m and unit vector can be written as .


Since the magnitude of is 6 and it’s unit vector is , we get



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