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Exercise 5.4.14

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  1. Every set of 55 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is linearly independent.

  2. Every set of 44 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is linearly independent.

  3. Every set of 66 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is linearly dependent.

  4. No set of 44 vectors spans R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

  5. Every linearly independent set of 55 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is a basis of R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

  6. Every linearly independent set of 44 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is a basis of R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

  7. Some linearly independent set of 44 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is a basis of R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

  8. Every spanning set of 66 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} is a basis of R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

  9. Every linearly independent set of 44 vectors in R5\mathbb{R}^{5} spans a 44-dimensional subspace of R5\mathbb{R}^{5}.

Selinger, Matrix Theory and Linear Algebra, Spans, linear independence, and bases in Rn, Basis and dimension, Exercise 5.4.14

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