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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ia Paper 1 5A iii Solution by
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Writing and using the Frobenius inner product, the three linear equations areThe first two differ by twice the third; equivalently . Thus there are only two independent constraints. Substituting gives , so every element of the vector subspace has the unique expressionThe two coefficient matrices satisfy all three constraints. Their linear independence follows by looking first at entry and then at entry . Therefore a basis for this orthogonal complement is
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