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Find a subset of the vectors that forms a basis for the span of the vectors; then express each vector which is not in basis as a linear combination of the basis vectors.
v1= (1, 1, -1), v2= ( 1, 0, 1), v3= ( 1, -2, 5), v4= ( 5, 3, 2)

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To find which of these vectors form basis.

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