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This document contains tutorial exercises on linear algebra topics such as vectors, vector spaces, and subspaces. There are 7 multiple part exercises involving vector combinations, null spaces, column spaces, functions as vector spaces, planes in 3D space, and spanning sets of polynomial vector spaces.

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Tut 2

This document contains tutorial exercises on linear algebra topics such as vectors, vector spaces, and subspaces. There are 7 multiple part exercises involving vector combinations, null spaces, column spaces, functions as vector spaces, planes in 3D space, and spanning sets of polynomial vector spaces.

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T HE U NIVERSITY OF S YDNEY

P URE M ATHEMATICS

Linear Mathematics Intensive January Session 2024

Tutorial 2
Tutorial exercises

1. Vectors v1 , v2 , v3 , v4 , v5 , v6 are the vectors:


     −4       
0 0 1 2 0
v1 = 0 v2 = 5 v3 = 4 v4 = 1 v5 = 0 v6 = 2
0 2 0 1 1 1

Write each of the vectors v1 , v2 and v3 as a linear combination of the three vectors {v4 , v5 , v6 },
if possible.
 
1
2. Let A = 2 5 4 .2 3

a) Determine Null(A) and interpret it geometrically.


b) Show that Col(A) = R2 .    
c) Write each of the vectors 10 and 01 as a linear combination of the columns of A.

3. Recall that F is the vector space of functions from R to R, with the usual operations of addition
and scalar multiplication of functions. For each of the following subsets of F, write down two
functions that belong to the subset, and determine whether or not the subset is a vector subspace
of F.
a) The set of polynomials of degree equal to 3.
b) The set { f : R −→ R | f (1) = 1 }.
c) The set { f : R −→ R | f (−x) = −f (x) for all x ∈ R }.
n 1   o
2
4. Let X = 1
−2
, 3 . Span(X) can be interpreted as a plane in 3 dimensional space. Find
5
the equation of this plane.

5. For each of the sets of vectors X ⊂ R3 below, explicitly describe all of the vectors in the
subspace Span(X) of R3 . (Use set notation to describe Span(X), and/or give a geometric
interpretation.)
a) X = {0}.
n o
1
b) X = 1 .
n 1   o
1 2
c) X = 1 , 2 .
n 1   2 o
1 1
d) X = 1 , 0 .
n   0   o
1
1 1 1
e) X = 1 , 0 , 1 .
1 0 0
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6. The vector space P2 consists of all polynomials of degree less than or equal to 2.
Let X = {p1 , p2 , p3 } ⊂ P2 , where p1 (x) = x + 2, p2 (x) = 3 − x, p3 (x) = x2 − x, for all
x ∈ R.
a) Show that X spans P2 . (That is, show that Span(X) = P2 .)
b) Let p4 (x) = 2x2 − x − 3. Show that {p2 , p3 , p4 } does not span P2 .

Extra exercise
7. Suppose that V is a vector space and that v ∈ V . Use the vector space axioms to show that:
a) 0 × v = 0. b) −1 × v is the negative of v.

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