Two Abstract Algebra Questions

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Originally Posted by grad444

1. Let V be a vector space over a field F, and $v_1, v_2,...,v_n \in V$ . If there is an i>1 such that $v_i \in span(v_1, v_2,...,v_{i-1})$ , then $span(v_1,...,v_n)=span(v_1,...,v_{i-1},v_{i+1},...,v_n)$ .

I'm not sure how to start this problem. I don't know what properties to apply to this problem.

you need to show that $span(v_1,...,v_n) \subseteq span(v_1,...,v_{i-1},v_{i+1},...,v_n)$ and $span(v_1,...,v_{i-1},v_{i+1},...,v_n) \subseteq span(v_1,...,v_n).$ to prove that $span(A) \subseteq span(B),$ you only need to

show that $A \subseteq span(B).$

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2. Let V be a vector space over a field F, and $v_1, v_2,...,v_n \in V$ . Let $u_i = v_i-a_i v_1$ , where $a_i \in F$ and $2\leq i \leq n$ . Show that if $u_2,...,u_n$ are linearly dependent, then $v_1,...,v_n$

are also linearly dependent.

$\sum_{i=2}^n c_i u_i =\sum_{i=1}^n c_i v_i,$ where $c_1=-\sum_{i=2}^nc_ia_i.$ now if $u_2, \cdots , u_n$ are linearly dependent, then there exist $c_2, \cdots , c_n,$ not all 0, such that $\sum_{i=2}^n c_i u_i =0.$ thus ...