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CHAPTER 4 VECTORS

4. 2.5 Represent Vectors as Linear Combination of other Vectors.

Task 1 : Express the following vectors in terms of x and y .


! !
(1) (2) (3)

ABCD is a parallelogram. !!!"


!!!" TQ =
!!!" QR =
AC = !!!"
PR =

(4) (5) (6)

EFGH is a parallelogram. !!!"


!!!" FG = !!!"
EG = BC =
!!!"
AD =

!!!" !!!" !!!" !!!"


Answers : (1) AC = x + y (2) QR = - y + x (3) TQ = -2 x + y ; PR = x + 12 y
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(4) EG = 2 x + y (5) FG = - x + 2 y (6) BC = - y + x ; AD = 1
2
y + 12 x
# # # # !!!" # # # #
Task 2 : For each of the following diagrams, express the vector PQ in terms of x and y .
! !
(1) (2)
P
Q

Q
P

!!!" !!!"
PQ = PQ =
Vectors 6
(3) (4) Q

P
!!!" !!!"
PQ = PQ =

(5) (6)
Q P

P Q
!!!" !!!"
PQ = PQ =

(7) (8)

Q
P

Q P

!!!" !!!"
PQ = PQ =

!!!" !!!" !!!" !!!"


Answers : (1) PQ = 2 x + y (2) PQ = x - y (3) PQ = 3 x + y (4) PQ = 2 x + 2 y
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(5) PQ = 3 x + 2 y (6) PQ = 2 x - y (7) PQ = -2 x + y (8) PQ = x - 3 y
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Vectors 7

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