a wall is 2m at one end and 2.4m at the other end. the area of the wall is 26.4m squared. what is the length of the wall?

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Since the height is different on both ends, we can assume that the wall is a trapezoid. Knowing that, we can replace the measures we know in the formula and our onky variable is the length of the wall - we only need to isolate it. A= ((b+B)h)/2 26.4=((2+2.4)h)/2 52.8=4.4h h=12

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Linearly Dependent for not all scalars are null.

Step-by-step explanation:

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1)When we have vectors like $v_{1},v_{2},v_{3}, ...$ we call them linearly dependent if we have scalars $a_{1},a_{2},a_{3},...$ as scalar coefficients of those vectors, and not all are null and their sum is equal to zero.

$a_{1}\vec{v_{1}}+a_{2}\vec{v_{2}}+a_{3}\vec{v_{3}}+...a_{m}\vec{v_{m}}=0$

When all scalar coefficients are equal to zero, we can call them linearly independent

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$\begin{bmatrix}1 &-2 &2 &3 \\ -2 & 4 & -4 &3 \\ 0&1 &-1 & 4\end{bmatrix}$

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$a_{1}\begin{bmatrix}1\\ -2\\ 0\end{bmatrix}+a_{2}\begin{bmatrix}-2\\ 4\\ 1\end{bmatrix}+a_{3}\begin{bmatrix}2\\ -4\\ -1\end{bmatrix}+a_{4}\begin{bmatrix}3\\ 3\\ 4\end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}0\\ 0\\ 0\end{bmatrix}$

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