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Find the shortest distance between the following pair of skew lines:

Given data:


Pair of skew lines:



To find the shortest distance between these two lines


We need to write this in vector form


Line I:




Line II:




Here





Shortest distance between two skew lines is







Putting these values in the expression,




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