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Suppose you have 4, three dimenstional vectors. Let vector a=<2,5,-7>, vector b=<-2,1,4>, vector c=<-1,0,3>, and d=<-1,32,-16>. Find x, y, and z so that xa + yb + zc = d. Note this is similar to the Linear Combination SCO which could also be solved with matrices. The only difference is that in this case we are dealing with 3-diminsional vectors.
This problem leads to the following system of equations.
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Now we need to put this in our calculator to solve using the rref method. Note, that we could solve this by hand also, but I am trying to illustrate how to use the calculator. | ![]() |