Question

A boy and his friend are driving go-karts on two different tracks. As the boy drives on a straight section heading east, his friend passes above him on a straight section heading south. Are these sections of the two tracks parallel, skew, or neither? Explain.

Answer 1

The sections of the track where the boy and his friend are driving are skew lines because they are not parallel, do not intersect, and lie in different planes.

Step-by-step explanation:

When a boy drives on a straight section heading east and his friend passes above him on a straight section heading south, the two sections of the track are considered skew. Skew lines are two lines that do not intersect and are not parallel, usually because they exist in different planes. Since one section runs east-west and the other runs north-south, and one is above the other, they cannot be parallel as they do not lie in the same plane. They also do not intersect, thus they are skew.