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phy
Oct4-04, 12:47 AM
Hi guys. I need some help with question #5 from my assignment. If someone can just tell me how to get the question started, it would be great. Thanks :smile:

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vsage
Oct4-04, 01:00 AM
If A, B and C generate U then e*A +f*B + g*C generates every element in U (in this case that a b c d matrix). Of course you know this already seeing as you did the rest of those. What does VecR(A, B, C) mean? No linear alg. book I've ever worked with uses that notation.
phy
Oct4-04, 01:04 AM
I'm not 100% sure on this either but somebody who I spoke to said that VecR(A, B, C) is just a spanning set. I couldn't find it in my textbook either.

So would I just set e*A +f*B + g*C equal to the matrix with entries a b c d and then solve?
vsage
Oct4-04, 01:11 AM
I'm not 100% sure on this either but somebody who I spoke to said that VecR(A, B, C) is just a spanning set. I couldn't find it in my textbook either.

So would I just set e*A +f*B + g*C equal to the matrix with entries a b c d and then solve?

Ok that's what I figured. Yeah and you should get some sort of proportionality between the four and not a numerical answer once you solve it out.
phy
Oct4-04, 01:14 AM
Alrightie I'll do that. Thanks a lot =)