Solution B.C40 Robert Beezer
An arbitrary linear combination is \begin{equation*} \vect{y}= 3\colvector{2\\-3\\1}+ (-2)\colvector{1\\4\\1}+ 1\colvector{7\\-5\\4}+ (-2)\colvector{-7\\-6\\-5} = \colvector{25\\-10\\15} \end{equation*} (You probably used a different collection of scalars.) We want to write $\vect{y}$ as a linear combination of \begin{equation*} B=\set{\colvector{1\\0\\\frac{7}{11}},\,\colvector{0\\1\\\frac{1}{11}}} \end{equation*} We could set this up as vector equation with variables as scalars in a linear combination of the vectors in $B$, but since the first two slots of $B$ have such a nice pattern of zeros and ones, we can determine the necessary scalars easily and then double-check our answer with a computation in the third slot, \begin{equation*} 25\colvector{1\\0\\\frac{7}{11}}+(-10)\colvector{0\\1\\\frac{1}{11}} = \colvector{25\\-10\\(25)\frac{7}{11}+(-10)\frac{1}{11}} = \colvector{25\\-10\\15}=\vect{y} \end{equation*} Notice how the uniqueness of these scalars arises. They are forced to be $25$ and $-10$.