Let be an inner product space of all polynomials with real coefficients and degree not greater than , and the inner product defined as The orthogonal projection of , on is a line. Find the slope of this line.
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x 3 − a x is orthogonal to 1 and x 2 ; we want it to be orthogonal to x as well. Now ⟨ x , x 3 − a x ⟩ = 1 5 6 − 1 0 a = 0 when a = 1 0 6 .