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Determinants & Inverses · Challenge problem

Vectors u,v,w\mathbf u, \mathbf v, \mathbf w in R3\mathbb R^3 satisfy det⁡[u v w]=3\det[\mathbf u\ \mathbf v\ \mathbf w] = 3. Find the volume of the parallelepiped spanned by u×v\mathbf u \times \mathbf v, v×w\mathbf v \times \mathbf w and w×u\mathbf w \times \mathbf u.