From Example RSB, form an arbitrary (and nontrivial) linear combination of the four vectors in the original spanning set for W
belongs to book: A First Course in Linear Algebra|Robert A. Beezer|| Chapter number:4| Question number:C40
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An arbitrary linear combination is
(You probably used a different collection of scalars.) We want to write y as a linear combination of
We could set this up as vector equation with variables as scalars in a linear combination of the vectors in B, but since the first two slots of B have such a nice pattern of zeros and ones, we can determine the necessary scalars easily and then double-check our answer with a computation in the third slot
Notice how the uniqueness of these scalars arises. They are forced to be 25 and −10.
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