Solution

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A vector space over a field is a set with vector addition and scalar multiplication satisfying the following vector space axioms. Under vector addition, is an abelian group: addition is associative and commutative, there is a zero vector , and each has an additive inverse . For all and ,
The operations are defined for every indicated pair and take their values in .

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