Solution B.C11 Chris Black
We can rewrite an arbitrary vector of $W$ as \begin{align*} \colvector{a + b - 2c\\ a + b - 2c + d\\ -2a + 2b + 4c - d\\ b + d} & = \colvector{a\\a\\-2a\\0} + \colvector{b\\b\\2b\\b} + \colvector{-2c\\-2c\\4c\\0} + \colvector{0\\d\\-d\\d}\\ &= a\colvector{1\\1\\-2\\0} + b\colvector{1\\1\\2\\1} + c\colvector{-2\\-2\\4\\0} + d\colvector{0\\1\\-1\\1} \end{align*} Thus, we can write $W$ as \begin{align*} W &= \spn{\set{ \colvector{1\\1\\-2\\0}, \colvector{1\\1\\2\\1}, \colvector{-2\\-2\\4\\0}, \colvector{0\\1\\-1\\1} }} \end{align*} These four vectors span $W$, but we also need to determine if they are linearly independent (turns out they are not). With an application of Theorem BS we can see that the arrive at a basis employing three of these vectors, \begin{align*} \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 1 & -2 & 0\\ 1 & 1 & -2 & 1\\ -2 & 2 & 4 & -1\\ 0 & 1 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix} &\rref \begin{bmatrix} \leading{1} & 0 & -2 & 0\\ 0 & \leading{1} & 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 & \leading{1}\\ 0 & 0 & 0 &0 \end{bmatrix} \end{align*} Thus, we have the following basis of $W$, \begin{align*} B &= \set{ \colvector{1\\1\\-2\\0}, \colvector{1\\1\\2\\1}, \colvector{0\\1\\-1\\1} } \end{align*}