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Let the following $U_1, U_2$ be subspaces of $\mathbb{R}^4$

$ U_1 = \begin{Bmatrix} (x, y, z, w) : z-y+2w = 0 \end{Bmatrix} $

$ U_2 = \begin{Bmatrix} (x, y, z, w) : z-y+2w = 0, x=2z \end{Bmatrix} $

Find a basis for the subspace $(U_1 \cap U_2)$

I have found the bases

$ B_1 = \begin{Bmatrix} (1, 1, 0, 0), (0, 2, 0, 1), (0, 0, 1, 0) \end{Bmatrix} $ $ B_2 = \begin{Bmatrix} (2, 2, 1, 0), (0, 2, 0, 1) \end{Bmatrix} $

for $U_1, U_2$ respectively, but do not know where to go from here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    @MichaelJoyce I checked with the official answers and they listed the same bases. What is your reasoning for them not being bases?2012-01-10

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Since $U_{2}\subset U_{1}$, you have $U_{1}\cap U_{2}=U_{2}$ and for $U_{2}$ for you already found a base (incase that's calculated correctly). I got a different base for $U_{2}$ but there are plenty of different bases for it.

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    Not sure why I didn't see it wasn't contained before, thanks!2012-01-10