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4.5 Exercise 39

Avg difficulty 2.5

Perform the indicated operations on the augmented matrices.

[6−5221−43−31|35−1]\left[\right. \begin{aligned}6 & & & −5 & & & 2 \\ 2 & & & 1 & & & −4 \\ 3 & & & −3 & & & 1\end{aligned} \left|\right. \begin{matrix}3 \\ 5 \\ −1\end{matrix} \left]\right.

ⓐ Interchange rows 2 and 3

ⓑ Multiply row 2 by 5

ⓒ Multiply row 3 by −2−2 and add to row 1.

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