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In the second part, a value can be worked out.</p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "statement": "<p>This question is about parallel vectors in \\(\\mathbb{R}^2\\).</p>", "advice": "<p>Two vectors \\(u\\) and \\(v\\) are parallel if there is some scalar \\(\\lambda\\) such that \\(v=\\lambda u\\) (or the other way around).</p>\n<p><strong>a)</strong> To get \\(\\begin{pmatrix}\\var{a} \\\\ t^2\\end{pmatrix}\\) parallel to the vector \\(\\var{u}\\), we would need \\(\\lambda=\\var{lambda}\\) to make it work for the first entry. However, there is no (real number) \\(t\\) such that \\(t^2=-\\var{lambda}\\). 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