Please help me solve this equation:
Express each of the following systems of equations in the standard multiplicative form and in the augmented matrix form.
a)
We'll find the augmented matrix first:
Put in all the 1 or -1 coefficients where the coefficient is
understood.
Put in 0 coefficients for x in the third equation and for y in the
4th equation.
Erase all the letters and replace the equal signs by a verticle bar
and put parentheses around the whole thing:
That's the augmented matrix.
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To find the AX=B equation
Matrix A is the 4x4 matrix of coefficients
the numbers left of the bar in the augmented matrix:
The matrix X is the 4x1 matrix of letters,
(unknowns or variables), in the same order
they appear in the original system of
equations:
The matrix B is the 4x1 matrix of numbers that
appear on the right of the equal signs, and
right of the bar in the augmented matrix:
So the equation is
You do the other one. It's the same way. Just follow the same
steps as above.
Edwin