Solution
The matrix must have the vectors
and
as a basis for its null space.
If we take B to be the matrix
which has the vectors
and
for rows then we can
find a basis for its nullspace and make these the rows of a matrix. Depending on how you calculate this basis you may get different bases. One basis is the rows of the matrix
This matrix has rank 2 so its nullspace has dimension 2. The rows of B are independent and in the nullspace of A so they are a basis for the nullspace of A. This means that the general solution to Ax =
is any particular solution to
plus a general element of the nullspace. That is
+
. If this is a solution to Ax=b then the b must be
so b =
=
>
is simply the null space of the transpose of the matrix obtained by augmenting
and taking transpose. Clearly, the vectors
will be in its null space, by definition. The rank of the matrix
is clearly 2 since the chosen vectors are independent. (They clearly have a 2 by 2 nonzero subdeterminant chosen from the second and the third rows.)
Since
has rank 2, its null space will have dimension 2 (or number of columns - rank). So, our vectors
must be a basis of the column space. If we simply take
to be
, we have all we need!