From my Linear Algebra class (ungraded) pratice work:  "If AB is a defined product of matrices A and B, and the columns of AB are linearly independent, is it necessarily the case that the columns of B are also linearly independent?"   So I got this far: (AB)x = 0 has only the trivial solution by the associative law of multiplication, (AB)x = A(Bx) = 0    from here, I'm not sure how to show the columns of B must be linearly independent.

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From my Linear Algebra class (ungraded) pratice work: 

"If AB is a defined product of matrices A and B, and the columns of AB are linearly independent, is it necessarily the case that the columns of B are also linearly independent?"

 

So I got this far:

(AB)x0 has only the trivial solution

by the associative law of multiplication, (AB)x = A(Bx) = 0 

 

from here, I'm not sure how to show the columns of B must be linearly independent.

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