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And I want to take those equations one at a time and ask
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--
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and make a picture of all the points that satisfy --
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let's take equation number two.
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If I make a picture of all the points that satisfy --
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all the x, y, z points that solve this equation --
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well, first of all, the origin is not one of them.
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x, y, z -- it being 0, 0, 0 would not solve that equation.
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So what are some points that do solve the equation?
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Let's see, maybe if x is one, y and z could be zero.
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That would work, right?
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So there's one point.
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I'm looking at this second equation,
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here, just, to start with.
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Let's see.
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Also, I guess, if z could be one,
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x and y could be zero, so that would just
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go straight up that axis.
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And, probably I'd want a third point here.
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Let me take x to be zero, z to be zero,
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then y would be minus a half, right?
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So there's a third point, somewhere -- oh my -- okay.
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Let's see.
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I want to put in all the points that satisfy that equation.
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Do you know what that bunch of points will be?
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It's a plane.
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If we have a linear equation, then, fortunately,
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the graph of the thing, the plot of all the points that solve it
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are a plane.
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These three points determine a plane,
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but your lecturer is not Rembrandt
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and the art is going to be the weak point here.
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So I'm just going to draw a plane, right?
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There's a plane somewhere.
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That's my plane.
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That plane is all the points that solves this guy.
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Then, what about this one?
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Two x minus y plus zero z.
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So z actually can be anything.
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Again, it's going to be another plane.
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Each row in a three by three problem
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gives us a plane in three dimensions.
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So this one is going to be some other plane --
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maybe I'll try to draw it like this.
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And those two planes meet in a line.
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So if I have two equations, just the first two
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equations in three dimensions, those give me a line.
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The line where those two planes meet.
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And now, the third guy is a third plane.
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And it goes somewhere.
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Okay, those three things meet in a point.
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Now I don't know where that point is, frankly.
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But -- linear algebra will find it.
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The main point is that the three planes, because they're not
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parallel, they're not special.
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They do meet in one point and that's the solution.
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But, maybe you can see that this row picture is
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getting a little hard to see.
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The row picture was a cinch when we looked at two lines
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meeting.
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When we look at three planes meeting,
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it's not so clear and in four dimensions probably
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a little less clear.
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So, can I quit on the row picture?
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Or quit on the row picture before I've successfully
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found the point where the three planes meet?
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All I really want to see is that the row picture consists
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of three planes and, if everything works right,
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three planes meet in one point and that's a solution.
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Now, you can tell I prefer the column picture.
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Okay, so let me take the column picture.
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That's x times --
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so there were two xs in the first equation minus one x is,
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and no xs in the third.
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It's just the first column of that.
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And how many ys are there?
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There's minus one in the first equations, two in the second
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and maybe minus three in the third.
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Just the second column of my matrix.
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And z times no zs minus one zs and four zs.
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And it's those three columns, right,
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that I have to combine to produce the right-hand side,
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which is zero minus one four.
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Okay.
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So what have we got on this left-hand side?
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A linear combination.
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It's a linear combination now of three vectors,
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and they happen to be -- each one is a three dimensional
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vector, so we want to know what combination of those three
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vectors produces that one.
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Shall I try to draw the column picture, then?
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So, since these vectors have three components --
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so it's some multiple -- let me draw in the first column
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as before --
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x is two and y is minus one.
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Maybe there is the first column.
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y -- the second column has maybe a minus one and a two and the y
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is a minus three, somewhere, there possibly, column two.
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And the third column has --
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no zero minus one four, so how shall I draw that?