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Old October 10th, 2008, 02:48 PM
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The first step is correct, they are linearly dependent and the dimension is 2. But this doesn't mean that the subspace is R^2. There are lots of subspace of dimension 2.

Your work basically tells you that you don't need all four vectors to generate the subspace. Two is enough. Can you choose these two vectors?
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