Students at a local elementary school were shown a painting and asked which emotion—joy, happiness, love, or anger—they felt by
looking at the painting. The students were classified by their age. The following table summarizes the responses of the students by age-group. One student from the school will be selected at random. What is the probability that the student is in the age- group of 6 to 8 years given that the selected student responded joy?
The value of the constant so that is a linear combination of and is .
Step-by-step explanation:
Let be , and , is a linear combination of and if and only if:
(Eq. 1)
Where:
, , - Scalar coefficients of linear combination, dimensionless.
By dividing each term by :
(Eq. 2)
- Zero vector, dimensionless.
And all vectors are linearly independent, meaning that at least one coefficient must be different from zero. Now we expand (Eq. 2) by direct substitution and simplify the resulting expression:
The following system of linear equations is obtained:
(Eq. 3)
(Eq. 4)
(Eq. 5)
The solution of this system is:
, ,
The value of the constant so that is a linear combination of and is .