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Exercise 19

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In this subsection we have shown that Gaussian reduction finds a basis for the row space.

  • Show that this basis is not unique — different reductions may yield different bases.

  • Produce matrices with equal row spaces but unequal numbers of rows.

  • Prove that two matrices have equal row spaces if and only if after Gauss-Jordan reduction they have the same nonzero rows.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Vector Spaces, Vector Spaces and Linear Systems, Exercise 19

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