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Do we go through the origin or not?
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In this case, yes, because there's a zero over there.
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In this case we don't go through the origin,
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because if x and y are zero, we don't get three.
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So, let me again say suppose y is zero,
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what x do we actually get?
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If y is zero, then I get x is minus three.
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So if y is zero, I go along minus three.
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So there's one point on this second line.
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Now let me say, well, suppose x is minus one --
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just to take another x.
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If x is minus one, then this is a one
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and I think y should be a one, because if x is minus one,
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then I think y should be a one and we'll get that point.
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Is that right?
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If x is minus one, that's a one.
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If y is a one, that's a two and the one
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and the two make three and that point's on the equation.
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Okay.
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Now, I should just draw the line, right,
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connecting those two points at --
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that will give me the whole line.
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And if I've done this reasonably well,
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I think it's going to happen to go through -- well,
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not happen -- it was arranged to go through that point.
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So I think that the second line is this one,
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and this is the all-important point that lies on both lines.
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Shall we just check that that point which
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is the point x equal one and y was two, right?
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That's the point there and that, I believe,
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solves both equations.
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Let's just check this.
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If x is one, I have a minus one plus four equals three, okay.
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Apologies for drawing this picture
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that you've seen before.
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But this -- seeing the row picture --
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first of all, for n equal 2, two equations and two unknowns,
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it's the right place to start.
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Okay.
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So we've got the solution.
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The point that lies on both lines.
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Now can I come to the column picture?
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Pay attention, this is the key point.
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So the column picture.
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I'm now going to look at the columns of the matrix.
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I'm going to look at this part and this part.
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I'm going to say that the x part is really x times --
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you see, I'm putting the two --
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I'm kind of getting the two equations at once --
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that part and then I have a y and in the first equation
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it's multiplying a minus one and in the second equation a two,
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and on the right-hand side, zero and three.
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You see, the columns of the matrix, the columns of A
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are here and the right-hand side b is there.
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And now what is the equation asking for?
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It's asking us to find -- somehow to combine that vector
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and this one in the right amounts to get that one.
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It's asking us to find the right linear combination --
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this is called a linear combination.
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And it's the most fundamental operation in the whole course.
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It's a linear combination of the columns.
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That's what we're seeing on the left side.
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Again, I don't want to write down a big definition.
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You can see what it is.
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There's column one, there's column two.
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I multiply by some numbers and I add.
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That's a combination -- a linear combination and I want to make
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those numbers the right numbers to produce zero three.
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Okay.
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Now I want to draw a picture that, represents what this --
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this is algebra.
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What's the geometry, what's the picture that goes with it?
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Okay.
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So again, these vectors have two components,
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so I better draw a picture like that.
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So can I put down these columns?
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I'll draw these columns as they are,
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and then I'll do a combination of them.
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So the first column is over two and down one, right?
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So there's the first column.
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The first column.
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Column one.
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It's the vector two minus one.
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The second column is --
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minus one is the first component and up two.
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It's here.
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There's column two.
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So this, again, you see what its components are.
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Its components are minus one, two.
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Good.
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That's this guy.
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Now I have to take a combination.
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What combination shall I take?
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Why not the right combination, what the hell?
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Okay.
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So the combination I'm going to take
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is the right one to produce zero three
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and then we'll see it happen in the picture.
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So the right combination is to take x as one of those
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and two of these.