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#1 2007-03-12 10:43:24

virtualinsanity
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Row space

There's this problem in my linear algebra book:

Describe the vectors which are in the row space of the following matrix:

(1 3
2 0
-1 1)

I was wondering how this is done so if anyone could help, that would be great!  Thanks!

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#2 2007-03-12 11:36:01

ryos
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Re: Row space

I'm never sure what math people mean when they say "describe". I think they probably mean that they want you to find out if they are linearly dependent or not.


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#3 2007-03-12 13:56:52

JaneFairfax
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Re: Row space

When you’ve found a basis for the space, you will have “described” the vectors in the space (since every vector is a linear combination of the basis vectors). smile

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#4 2007-03-12 15:28:31

virtualinsanity
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Re: Row space

JaneFairfax wrote:

When you’ve found a basis for the space, you will have “described” the vectors in the space (since every vector is a linear combination of the basis vectors). smile

Does this mean that I have to put this matrix in row-reduced echelon form?  As in row reduce the following...

(1  3| 0)
(2  0| 0)
(-1 1| 0)

?

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#5 2007-03-12 18:07:52

George,Y
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Re: Row space

ie
a(1 3)+b(2 0) represents any vector composed by row vectors of the Matrix.


X'(y-Xβ)=0

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#6 2007-03-13 16:29:25

virtualinsanity
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Re: Row space

Oh, okay.  So I put the matrix in row-reduced echelon form and got the matrix:

1 0 | 0
0 1 | 0
0 0 | 0

Does this mean that the set of vectors in the row space of a are just (0,0) since:

a = 0
b = 0

Therefore, 0(1 3) + 0(2 0) = (0 0) if I'm not mistaken?

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#7 2007-03-13 22:36:01

George,Y
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Re: Row space

No, row space means any another vector with the same amount of entries can be represented by a linear combination of the given row vectors from the matrix.


X'(y-Xβ)=0

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