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Determine whether the vectors lie in a plane, and if so, whether they lie on a line. (a) (b) (c) .
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VerifiedNotice that three vectors lie in the plane if one of them can be expressed as a linear combination of the other two. Three vectors lie in the line if two vectors are a scalar multiple of the third. Let and . Then those vectors lie in a plane if rank. They lie on a line if rank and they span if rank . [15pt] The matrix is given by:
Add -2 times the first row to the second and -1 times the first row to the third:
Multiply the second row by and the third by :
Add -9 times the third row to the second and add 14 times the third row to the first:
Multiply the second row by :
Add -7 times the second row to the first and -1 times the second row to the third:
Therefore, rank and thus the given vectors do not lie in a plane, they span
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