Problem

Find the basis and the dimension of the column space for the following matrix A=[123  456  789]

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Step 3: The dimension of the column space of A is just the number of vectors in our basis. So, the dimension is 2.

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Step 1 :Step 1: We first perform row operations to bring matrix A into its row echelon form.

Step 2 :Performing row operations, we get, R2=R24R1 and R3=R37R1, the resulting matrix is [123  036  0612]

Step 3 :Continuing, we perform R3=R32R2 to get [123  036  000]

Step 4 :Step 2: Now that we have our row echelon form, we find the basis for the column space of A by taking the columns in A that correspond to the leading 1's in the row echelon form. This gives us the first and second columns of A.

Step 5 :So, the basis for the column space of A is given by the vectors [1  4  7] and [2  5  8]

Step 6 :Step 3: The dimension of the column space of A is just the number of vectors in our basis. So, the dimension is 2.

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