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Bring the chapter together: compare vectors, compute combinations, decide what a span holds, and read a system both as equations and as vectors. No worked example sits above the answers.
Linear Algebra · Lesson 06
Bring the chapter together: compare vectors, compute combinations, decide what a span holds, and read a system both as equations and as vectors. No worked example sits above the answers.
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Sign in to save progressBring the chapter together: compare vectors, compute combinations, decide what a span holds, and read a system both as equations and as vectors. No worked example sits above the answers.
Checking a delivery against an order means asking several different questions of the same list, and knowing which question a given discrepancy belongs to.
Decide first which question is being asked. Equality compares positions; a combination asks for weights; a span asks what some choice of weights can reach; a system asks for one list satisfying every equation at once.
: a linear combination with weights .
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Which statement about and is correct?
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What is ?
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Which vector lies in the span of alone?
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What is the span of and in ?
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Which equation is linear in the unknowns x and y?
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The system , is written as . What is ?
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Apply to and . What is the new ?
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A system in three unknowns has coefficient vectors whose span is a line, and its right-hand side does not lie on that line. What follows?