Must linearly dependent vectors pass through the origin?

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Why it says 'linearly dependent vectors pass through the origin'? Why it must hold? or must it not? Thanks in advance.

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Based on your "vector-spaces" tag, I'm assuming all your vectors in question are really elements of a vector space, say, $\Bbb R^2$.

Recall that when two points live on a line $\ell$ passing through the origin $(0,0)$, then the equation of the line $\ell$ would be of the form: $y=mx$. But this is exactly the condition of two vectors to be linearly dependent. (Why?)

Remark: The above argument does not hold for more than two vectors in general.