What is the graph of $4x − 2y + z = −1$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2014-10-18T23:17:31

By rewriting a bit,

$4(x-0)-2(y-0)+1(z+1)=0$ ,

which is a plane passing through the point $(0,0,-1)$ with the normal vector $vec{n}=(4,-2,1)$ .

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