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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford 2017 Prelims Mathematics I 2 b iv Solution by
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Yes. A surjective has , so every is attained. Its rank of a linear map is , and the rank-nullity theorem givesThe solution set of a linear system is therefore a translate of a nonzero vector subspace, containing infinitely many solutions as in iii.
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