Question

Find the area of parallelogram with verticies: (1,1,1), (4,4,4), (8,-3,14) and (11,0,17)

Answer 1

using (1,1,1) as the origin, the vectors forming the two adjacent edges are

u=3i+3j+3k
v=7i-4j+13k
so |u×v| = 3√446