Are the four points and in coplanar?
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Any three points are coplanar, so first we will determine the plane shared by points A , B and C and then check to see if point D also lies on this plane.
To find the normal to the plane shared by A , B and C we calculate the cross product of A B = ( 2 , 0 , − 2 ) and A C = ( 1 , 2 , 2 ) using the method described in the link to find a normal vector n = ( 4 , − 6 , 4 ) .
The plane equation is then ( x − 1 , y − 2 , z − 3 ) ∘ ( 4 , − 6 , 4 ) = 0 ⟹ 2 x − 3 y + 2 z = 2 .
Then as 2 × 2 0 1 7 − 3 × 2 0 1 6 + 2 × 1 0 0 8 = 2 we can conclude that D does lie on this plane, and thus that Y e s , the four given points are coplanar.