Consider the contrapositive of the statement you want to prove.
The contrapositive of the logical statement
<em>p</em> ⇒ <em>q</em>
is
¬<em>q</em> ⇒ ¬<em>p</em>
In this case, the contrapositive claims that
"If there are no scalars <em>α</em> and <em>β</em> such that <em>c</em> = <em>α</em><em>a</em> + <em>β</em><em>b</em>, then <em>a₁b₂</em> - <em>a₂b₁</em> = 0."
The first equation is captured by a system of linear equations,

or in matrix form,

If this system has no solution, then the coefficient matrix on the right side must be singular and its determinant would be

and this is what we wanted to prove. QED
Answer:
8.6
Step-by-step explanation:
To find the distance between two points we use the formula posted below
All we need to do is figure out what the points are on the graph and plug them into the formula... we end up with
the square root of (5-(-2)^2+(2-(-3)^2 and get the answer of 8.602325267
then we round to the nearest tenth and get 8.6
1600<2570-125.5x<2000 subtract 2570 from all terms...
-970<-125.5x<-570 divide all terms by -125.5 (and reverse signs because of division by a negative!)
7.73>x>4.54 and x is months since January, and since months can only be integers...
x=[5,7]
So January + 5, 6, and 7 respectively are the three months that satisfy the equation...
June, July, and August.

By inspection 1 is a root of y ,
Hence , (x-1) is a factor of y ,

Hence , the 2 other roots are -1/2 and 3 , and the above graphs confirms the same.
Hope it helps you :)