Answer:
- B. The statement is false. The vector v1 could be the zero vector.
Explanation:
Two vectors
and
are linearly independent if the equation

where
and
are scalars, has only one solution:
.
If there is more than one solution, we say that the vector are linearly dependent.
<h3>Why the answer is B. :</h3>
if
then,
could have any value of the scalar group, as for any scalar 

So, we get that there is more than one solution.
So, a particular counterexample is:


as
is not an scalar multiple of
, and the equation

has as solution


as we can see



