Exercise 1: Vector Addition, Scalar Multiplication, Magnitude & Normalization — Possible Solution ==================================================================== GIVEN ------------------------------ c = [6, 8] d = [-2, 1] (A) c + d ------------------------------ Add component by component: c + d = [6 + (-2), 8 + 1] = [4, 9] (B) 3 . d ------------------------------ Multiply every component by the scalar 3: 3.d = [3 x -2, 3 x 1] = [-6, 3] (C) THE MAGNITUDE OF c ------------------------------ |c| = sqrt(6^2 + 8^2) = sqrt(36 + 64) = sqrt(100) = 10 (D) THE NORMALIZED (UNIT) VECTOR FOR c ------------------------------ Divide every component of c by its own magnitude (10): c / |c| = [6/10, 8/10] = [0.6, 0.8] Check: sqrt(0.6^2 + 0.8^2) = sqrt(0.36 + 0.64) = sqrt(1) = 1, confirming this is genuinely a unit-length vector. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ Each result applies exactly one of this chapter's own definitions - component-wise addition, component-wise scalar multiplication, the Pythagorean-style magnitude formula, and dividing by that magnitude to normalize - with the normalization result double-checked by recomputing its own magnitude and confirming it comes out to exactly 1.