Miscellaneous Exercise 2(A) · Q35
Q.If then reduce it to by using column transformations.
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Step 1: is already lower triangular with s on the diagonal, so only the off-diagonal entries need clearing, using COLUMN operations.
Step 2: Clear the (2,1) entry using (row 1 is unaffected since , so this cannot disturb the (1,1) entry): column 1 becomes . Matrix: .
Step 3: Clear the remaining (3,1) entry using (column 3's row-1 and row-2 entries are , so this cannot disturb the (1,1) or (2,1) entries just fixed): column 1 becomes . Matrix: .
Step 4: Clear the last remaining off-diagonal entry (3,2) using (column 3's row-1, row-2 entries are still , so column 1 is untouched): column 2 becomes .
Step 5: Final matrix is .
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via , then , then .
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