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Define skew lines. Using only vector approach, find the shortest distance between the following two skew lines:



Two lines that are neither parallel or nor intersecting, i.e. non-co-planer are skew lines.


We know, distance between two skew lines and


is



Here,




And



Here,







And




And



Therefore,



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