Orthogonal sets!

calculuskid1

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Hey guys, I am brand new to this site, I am originally from the MHF (Math Help Forum), but it seems as if they have shut down :( Anyways I'm hoping to find a new home here! I'm hoping I'm in the right section here;
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So after doing some calculations with the inner product of [a,b,c,d] with X1,X2,X3 I found out that a=b=d and c=-3a. so Y=[a,a,-3a,a] (a cant be 0). So this is orthogonal to all the other vectors, so what am I missing here?
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So after doing some calculations with the inner product of [a,b,c,d] with X1,X2,X3 I found out that a=b=d and c=-3a. so Y=[a,a,-3a,a] (a cant be 0). So this is orthogonal to all the other vectors, so what am I missing here?
The question does ask for a unit vector.
Thus \(\displaystyle \frac{1}{12}<1,1,-3,1>\) works.
 
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