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    Math 115A Quiz 1 Fall 2018

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    • You have 15 minutes

    For each of the following subsets of the vector space R2 (the usual vector space over R),
    state whether they are subspaces. Justify your answer: if it is a subspace, give a proof. If it
    is not a subspace provide a specific reason for why it is not.
    
    1. W1 = (a, b) ∈ R2 : a · b = 0
    
    2. W2 = (a, b) ∈ R2 : a − 2b = 0

    Solution. 1. No, W1 is not a subspace of R2 . To see this note that (0, 1) ∈ W1 (because
    0 · 1 = 0) and (1, 0) ∈ W1 (because 1 · 0 = 0). However, (0, 1) + (1, 0) = (1, 1) 6∈ W1
    because 1 · 1 = 1 6= 0. This violates part (b) of the Subspace Test (Theorem 1.3 from
    the textbook). Thus W1 is not a subspace.
    Some other remarks:
    • For W1 , parts (a) and (c) of the Subspace Test actually hold, only (b) fails.
    • The expression “a · b” is not the dot product from multivariable calculus, it
    denotes scalar multiplication. Here a and b are real numbers (scalars) as they are
    the coefficients of a vector from R2 .
    2. Yes, W2 is a subspace of R2 . To prove this, we will check that parts (a), (b), and (c)
    of the Subspace Test are all true for the subset W2 .
    (a) We need to show that the zero vector of R2 is in W2 . For the vector space R2 ,
    the zero vector is (0, 0). The membership requirement for a vector (a, b) to be in
    the set W2 is that a − 2b = 0. Clearly for the zero vector, 0 − 2 · 0 = 0. Thus
    (0, 0) ∈ W2 .
    (b) Let (a, b), (c, d) ∈ W2 be two arbitrary vectors in W2 . We need to show that their
    vector sum (a, b)+(c, d) is also in W2 . Since (a, b) ∈ W2 , this means that a−2b = 0,
    and since (c, d) ∈ W2 , this means that c − 2d = 0 (this is literally the only specific
    things we know about (a, b) and (c, d), so we better use these facts). Now to check
    that (a, b) + (c, d) = (a + c, b + d) is in W2 , we need to know that it satisfies the
    membership requirement for W2 , i.e., we need to show that (a + c) − 2 · (b + d) = 0.
    Note that:
       
    (a + c) − 2 · (b + d) = a − 2
    | {z }· b + − ·
    | {z } = 0 + 0 = 0,
    c 2 d
    =0 =0

    where we used the assumption that a − 2 · b = 0 and c − 2 · d = 0 since (a, b), (c, d) ∈
    W2 . We conclude that (a, b) + (c, d) ∈ W2 .
    (c) Finally, we need to show that if (a, b) ∈ W2 and α ∈ R are arbitrary, then α · (a, b)
    is also in W2 . By assumption, since (a, b) ∈ W2 , this means that a − 2b = 0 (we
    will use this fact). To show that α · (a, b) = (α · a, α · b) is in W2 , we need to show
    that it satisfies the membership requirement for W2 , i.e., we need to show that
    α · a − 2 · (α · b) = 0. Note that

    α · a − 2 · (α · b) = α(a − 2 · b) = α · 0 = 0.

    Thus α · (a, b) ∈ W2 .

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