How to I go from parametric equation of 3d line to vector form?

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So I wanted to find the line of intersection for the two planes $x+3y=7$ and $2y+z = 4$.

So for $z = t$ I get:

$x= 7-(3(4-t))/2$ and
$y = (4-t)/2$

But I want to know how I go from this to the vector equation of the line since that one is easier to understand intuitively.

the one on the form $(x,y,z) = (x_0,y_0,z_0) + t (a,b,c)$.

where $(x_0,y_0,z_0)$ is the starting position (vector) and $(a,b,c)$ is a direction vector of the line.

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to find out the starting point of the vector, just put any value of t in the equation you found out.

next to find out the direction ratios just compare the coefficient of t in the equation of x and y.(for z the direction ratio will be one)