Sorry, I cannot understand your slashes and commas on the second one. You should not use slashes or commas when typing matrices just skip spaces between the elements, and line them up, and type ᐸpreᐳ at the beginning of your post and type ᐸ/preᐳ at the end of your post, so the numbers will line up vertically since it will be in what is known as "courier new font": If you meant this: [ 3 0] [2 4 0]×[-2 3] [ 1 2] then yes, they can be multiplied. If you meant this [2] [ 3 0] [4]×[-2 3] [0] [ 1 2] then no they cannot. Rule: 1. Find the dimension of the first matrix, by first finding the "down" number counting the number of numbers going from top to bottom and then counting the "across" number of numbers going from right to left. The dimension of the matrix is the "down" number by the "across" number. 2. If the "across" number of the first matrix equals the "down" number of the second matrix, then the two matrices can be multiplied, and the product matrix will have the dimensions of the "down" number of the first matrix by the "across" number of the second matrix. If you meant this: [ 3 0] [2 4 0]×[-2 3] [ 1 2] Then the first matrix is a "1 down by 3 across" matrix and the second one is a "3 down by 2 across" matrix. So yes they can be multiplied because the "across" number of the first matrix equals the "down" number of the second matrix. The product matrix will then be a 1 down by 2 across matrix, that is (1 by 3)×(3 by 2) = (1 by 2) The two inner dimensions are the same (2), so the product matrix will have the outer two dimensions (1 by 2) Suppose you have these matrices to multiply: [6 3 1 9] [0 5 1 8 7] [4 7 0 3] [7 3 4 2 3]×[2 9 9 5] [7 6 5 6 1] [9 4 2 5] [8 3 8 7] This is a "3 down by 5 across" times a "5 down by 4 across", so they can be multiplied because (3 by 5)×(5 by 4) = (3 by 4) the two inner dimensions are the same (5) and the product matrix will be a 3 by 4 matrix. However if you reversed them: [6 3 1 9] [4 7 0 3] [0 5 1 8 7] [4 7 0 3]×[7 3 4 2 3] [2 9 9 5] [7 6 5 6 1] [9 4 2 5] then you could not multiply them because this is a "5 down by 4 across" times a "3 down by 5 across" and (5 by 4)×(3 by 5) cannot be multiplied because the two inner dimenisions 4 and 3 are not the same. If you meant this in the problem you submitted: [2] [ 3 0] [4]×[-2 3] [0] [ 1 2] then that would be a "3 down by 1 across" times a "3 down by 2 across" (3 by 1)×(3 by 2) and the inner dimensions are not the same, so they cannot be multiplied. Hope you understand now. Edwin