Back to Gauss’s Method

Exercise 20

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Prove that each operation of Gauss’s Method is reversible. That is, show that if two systems are related by a row operation S1→S2S_{1}\rightarrow S_{2} then there is a row operation to go back S2→S1S_{2}\rightarrow S_{1}.

Hefferon, Linear Algebra, Linear Systems, Gauss’s Method, Exercise 20

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