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4.5 Exercise 41

Avg difficulty 2.5

Perform the indicated operations on the augmented matrices.

Perform the needed row operations that will get the first entry in both row 2 and row 3 to be zero in the augmented matrix: [1−233−1−22−3−4|−45−1].\left[\right. \begin{aligned}1 & & & −2 & & & 3 \\ 3 & & & −1 & & & −2 \\ 2 & & & −3 & & & −4\end{aligned} \left|\right. \begin{matrix}−4 \\ 5 \\ −1\end{matrix} \left]\right. .

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