General linear combinations of standard basis vectors

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andrew tonks	said	Ready to use	4 years, 7 months ago
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Julia Goedecke 4 years, 8 months ago

Saved a checkpoint:

Managed to make it accept any counter-example which has the correct form. Also made it work with NA or counterexample, depending on the question, but not visible to the student which one it is.

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Created this as a copy of Julia's third copy of General linear combinations of standard basis vectors.

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General linear combinations of standard basis vectors	Ready to use	Julia Goedecke	25/08/2021 12:57
Demo accept NA or any counter-example	Ready to use	Julia Goedecke	25/08/2021 12:57
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This question is about general linear combinations.

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			Name	Type	Generated Value

v1	vector	vector(4,3)
v2	vector	vector(3,3)
w1	vector	vector(1.4142135624,pi)
w2	vector	vector(-0.4714045208,pi)
n	integer	2
b	integer	3
mu1	integer	4
mu2	integer	12
e1	string	\begin\{pmatrix\}1\\0\\0\\0\en
e2	string	\begin\{pmatrix\}0\\1\\0\\0\en
e3	string	\begin\{pmatrix\}0\\0\\1\\0\en
e4	string	\begin\{pmatrix\}0\\0\\0\\1\en

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Can you write any vector $\begin{pmatrix}x\\y\end{pmatrix}\in \mathbb{R}^2$ as a linear combination of the vectors $\begin{pmatrix}1\\0\end{pmatrix},\ \begin{pmatrix}0\\1\end{pmatrix}$ ?

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$\begin{pmatrix}x\\y\end{pmatrix}=\$ Gap 0. $\begin{pmatrix}1\\0\end{pmatrix} +$ Gap 1. $\begin{pmatrix}0\\1\end{pmatrix}$ .

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Part a) Whatever real numbers the entries $x$ and $y$ are, we can use those numbers as coefficients. So in general, we have $\begin{pmatrix}x\\y\end{pmatrix}=x\begin{pmatrix}1\\0\end{pmatrix}+y\begin{pmatrix}0\\1\end{pmatrix}$ .

Part b) Similarly, we have $\begin{pmatrix}x_1\\x_2\\x_3\\x_4\end{pmatrix}=x_1\var{latex(e1)}+x_2\var{latex(e2)}+x_3\var{latex(e3)} + x_4\var{latex(e4)}$ . Therefore, there is no counterexample.

Part c) We cannot write any vector in $\mathbb{R}^4$ as a linear combination of just the first three vectors: any vector which has a non-zero fourth entry cannot be written like this, because

$x_1\var{latex(e1)}+x_2\var{latex(e2)}+x_3\var{latex(e3)} =\begin{pmatrix}x_1\\x_2\\x_3\\0\end{pmatrix}.$

Whatever we choose for $x_1,\ x_2,\ x_3$ , we can never get a non-zero entry in the fourth position. For example, $\begin{pmatrix}0\\0\\0\\1\end{pmatrix}$ is a counter-example. Any vector with non-zero fourth entry is accepted as a correct counter-example.

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