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You are given the following three vectors in $\mathbb{R}^4$ :

$\mathbf{v}_1=\var{v1}, \quad \mathbf{v}_2=\var{v2}, \quad \mathbf{v}_3=\var{v3}$

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v1	vector	vector(-15,6,10,-16)
v2	vector	vector(9,9,-18,18)
v3	vector	vector(-6,15,-8,2)
tt	list	[ 2, 1, 3 ]

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only	string	an infinite number of solution
independent	string	dependent

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t	integer	2
rs	list	[ 9, 7, 1 ]
r1	number	9
r2	number	-7
r3	number	-1
w_x	integer	-1
w_y	integer	1

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w	vector	vector(9,9,-18,18)
x	vector	vector(-15,6,10,-16)
y	vector	vector(-6,15,-8,2)
z	vector	vector(8,8,-15,16)

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p	integer	-1
q	integer	1
coeff_v1	integer	1
coeff_v2	integer	1
coeff_v3	integer	-1

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test	vector	vector(0,0,0,0)
a		Definition of variable `a` is empty.
b		Definition of variable `b` is empty.
c		Definition of variable `c` is empty.

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vector(-15,6,10,-16)

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1. Do these vectors form a spanning set for $\mathbb{R^4}$ ? Gap 0.

2. Is $\{\mathbf{v}_1,\;\mathbf{v}_2,\;\mathbf{v}_3\}$ a linearly independent set of vectors?Gap 1.

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(a)

1. These vectors cannot form a spanning set as you need at least 4 vectors to form a spanning set in $\mathbb{R^4}$ .

2. $\mathbf{v}_1, \; \mathbf{v}_2 , \; \mathbf{v}_3$ is a linearly independent set if the only solution for

$a \mathbf{v}_1 + b \mathbf{v}_2 + c \mathbf{v}_3 = \var{vector(0,0,0,0)} \qquad \textbf{(1)}$ is

$a=0$ ,

$b=0$ ,

$c=0$ .

If there is any other solution then the set is linearly dependent. Note that if there is one other solution then there will be an infinite number of such solutions.

On writing out the components given by equation (1), we see that we get the following four equations:

$\begin{align} \simplify[std]{{v1[0]} * a + {v2[0]} * b + {v3[0]} * c }&= 0\\ \simplify[std]{{v1[1]} * a + {v2[1]} * b + {v3[1]} * c }&= 0\\ \simplify[std]{{v1[2]} *a+ {v2[2]} * b + {v3[2]} * c }&= 0\\ \simplify[std]{{v1[3]} *a+ {v2[3]} * b + {v3[3]} * c }&= 0\end{align}$

We see that on solving these equations that there is {only} the solution:

$a = \var{coeff_v1}, \; b=\var{coeff_v2}, \; c=\var{coeff_v3}$

It follows that $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \; \mathbf{v}_2 , \; \mathbf{v}_3\}$ is a linearly {independent} set of vectors.

(b)

Because the vectors $\mathbf{v}_1$ , $\mathbf{v}_2$ and $\mathbf{v}_3$ are linearly independent, input 0 for both $p$ and $q$ .Rearrange equation (1) to give

$\var{[a,b,c][tt[0]-1]}\mathbf{v}_{\var{tt[0]}} = -\var{[a,b,c][tt[1]-1]}\mathbf{v}_{\var{tt[1]}} - \var{[a,b,c][tt[2]-1]}\mathbf{v}_{\var{tt[2]}}$ So, using the solution found above,

$p=-\var{[a,b,c][tt[1]-1]} = \var{p}$ and

$q =-\var{[a,b,c][tt[2]-1]} = \var{q}$ .

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