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if the rref of a has a row of 0', then the set of row vectors of a is linearly dependent. Please help me prove or give a counterexample

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It is true. You try to give a proof using the fact that reducing by rows a matrix is, in fact, a process that applies linear combinations of the same rows of the matrix to other row(s), so if at some point a row becomes all zeros that means that row is a linear combination of the other ones.