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Let B, C, D, E, F and G be the following matrices:

1 3
2 6
3 9

1 -1 0
0 2 3
0 0 2

1 -1 0
0 1 1
1 0 1

2 1 0 0
0 0 -1 -1
0 0 0 3
0 0 0 0

1 1
3 4

4 6
-2 -3

I would welcome an explanation of whether:

- the columns of each matrix are independent
- the rows of each matrix are independent
- the columns of each matrix span R2 or R3
- the rows of each matrix span R3
- the rank of each matrix is 1 or 2.

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the second and third rows are multiples of the first; so the rows aren't independent, and neither are the columns.
the rows span a 1-dimensional subspace of R^2, and the columns span a 1-dimensional subspace of R^3
the row rank = column rank = 1 in this case ...

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