Homework Help: linear algebra

Posted by chris on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 at 10:03pm.

Show that a subset W of a vector space V is a subspace of V if and only if the following condition holds: If u and v are any vectors in W and a and b are any scalars, then au + bv is in W.

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