Elementary Linear Algebra 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-13311-087-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-13311-087-3

Chapter 5 - Inner Product Spaces - Review Exercises - Page 284: 23

Answer

all the vectors spanned by the vectors $\{(1,0,0,-1),(0,1,0,2),(0,0,1,2)\}$ are orthogonal to $u$.

Work Step by Step

Let $u=(1-2,2,1)$ and $v=(a,b,c,d)$ such that $u$ is orthogonal to $v$, that is $$u\cdot v=0 \Longrightarrow a-2b+2c+d=0.$$ Now, assume that, $a=r$ and $b=s$, $c=t$ then we get the solution, $$a=r, \quad b=s, \quad c=t,\quad d=-r+2s-2t$$ that is, $v=(r,s,t,-r+2s-2t)=r(1,0,0,-1)+s(0,1,0,2)+t(0,0,1,2)$. Hence, all the vectors spanned by the vectors $\{(1,0,0,-1),(0,1,0,2),(0,0,1,2)\}$ are orthogonal to $u$.
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