Please show your work Given the following matrices A and B f
Please show your work.
Given the following matrices A and B, find a matrix C in M_2, 3 so that {A, B, C} is linearly independent and a non-zero matrix Din M_2, 3 so that {A, B, D} is linearly dependent: A = [-4 8 9 3 9 -9] B = [10 7 4 0 7 -8] C = [0 0 0 0 0 0] D = [0 0 0 0 0 0]Solution
To find C such that A,B,C is linearly independent we know that
A(x) + B(y) + C(z) = 0
A(x) and B(y) are known so
The set S is not linearly dependent if, whenever some linear combination
of the elements of S adds up to 0, it turns out that c1, c2, . . . are all zero. That is,
c1x1 + · · · + cnxn = 0
c1 = c2 = · · · = cn = 0
Suppose that, in the matrix A, rowi(A) is replaced by rowi(A) + c·rowj (A). Call the resulting
matrix B. If x belongs to the row space of A, then
x = c1row1(A) + . . . + cirowi(A) + . . . + cj rowj (A) + cmrowm(A).
Now add and subtract c · ci· rowj (A) to get
x = c1row1(A) + . . . + cirowi(A) + c · cirowj (A) + . . . + (cj ci· c)rowj (A) + cmrowm(A)
= c1row1(B) + . . . + cirowi(B) + . . . + (cj ci· c)rowj (B) + . . . + cmrowm(B).
This shows that x can also be written as a linear combination of the rows of B. So any
element in the row space of A is contained in the row space of B
