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ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematical-methods-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015-resit/7/ii/solution

No, as printed. Each displayed vector has only two components, so neither is an element of the stated without an additional embedding convention. Even if one inserts a zero third component, two vectors span at most a two-dimensional linear subspace and cannot form a basis of . This conclusion does not require guessing a missing third entry.

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