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Can you tell me how to find if the following equation has a solution?

DA=b
where D is an 1 x m matrix with unknown elements,
A is an m x n matrix with known elements,
and b is an 1 x n matrix in which all elements are equal to 1.

Thank you,
Anna

This is equivalent to the assertion the row space of A contains (1,1,...,1).

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What does it mean 'the row space of A contains (1,1,...,1)'?

Is it right that, if A has rank m, this means that A*pseudoinverse(A) is equal to the m x m unity matrix?

Anna

Do you know what the row space is?

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I do not know what is the row space.

Maby there is a solution when there is a linear combination of the rows of A that is equal to an 1 x n matrix of ones.

Also, I read at the following link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%E2%8 ... udoinverse

in paragraph 4.4. something about finding a right inverse that could help me to solve the problem. But I do not understand if this holds for every m x n matrix A that has rank equal to m.

Anna

You should google "row space" instead, that's the crux of the matter.

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Ok, thank you. I read about the row space. So if I understand, the problem has a solution when there is a linear combination of the row vectors of A that is equal to (1, 1, ... ,1).

However there is something that I do not understand in the link I have sent in my previous post. If the rows of A are linearly independent this means that the pseudoinverse of A is a right inverse of A?

Anna