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Exercise 10

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Consider the following relationship on the set of 2 ⁣× ⁣22\!\times\!2 matrices: we say that AA is sum-what like BB if the sum of all of the entries in AA is the same as the sum of all the entries in BB. For instance, the zero matrix would be sum-what like the matrix whose first row had two sevens, and whose second row had two negative sevens. Prove or disprove that this is an equivalence relation on the set of 2 ⁣× ⁣22\!\times\!2 matrices.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Linear Systems, Gauss-Jordan Reduction, Exercise 10

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