[3 -2 0] [3 3 0] [0 0 4] Augment the matrix with the identity matrix on the right [3 -2 0 | 1 0 0] [3 3 0 | 0 1 0] [0 0 4 | 0 0 1] Get 0's everywhere except on the diagonal, working column by column, using row operations: [3 -2 0 | 1 0 0] [3 3 0 | 0 1 0] [0 0 4 | 0 0 1] Get a 0 where the red 3 is by adding -1 times row 1 to 1 times row 2. (It's a good idea to put the multipliers to the left of the two rows you're working with so you can do the row operations in your head): -1[3 -2 0 | 1 0 0] 1[3 3 0 | 0 1 0] [0 0 4 | 0 0 1] [3 -2 0 | 1 0 0] [0 5 0 |-1 1 0] [0 0 4 | 0 0 1] Get a 0 where the -2 is by adding 2 times row 2 to 5 times row 1. 5[3 -2 0 | 1 0 0] 2[0 5 0 |-1 1 0] [0 0 4 | 0 0 1] [15 0 0 | 3 2 0] [ 0 5 0 |-1 1 0] [ 0 0 4 | 0 0 1] Now we have all 0's except on the diagonal, So we now divide through every row by the diagonal element to make them 1's, so that we now have the identity matrix on the left: [15/15 0/15 0/15 | 3/15 2/15 0/15] [ 0/5 5/5 0/5 | -1/5 1/5 0/5] [ 0/4 0/4 4/4 | 0/4 0/4 1/4] Reduce all the fractions that will reduce, and we have the identity matrix on the left, and the inverse of the original matrix is on the right: [ 1 0 0 | 1/5 2/15 0] [ 0 1 0 | -1/5 1/5 0] [ 0 0 1 | 0 0 1/4] So the inverse is the augmented part on the right: [ 1/5 2/15 0] [-1/5 1/5 0] [ 0 0 1/4] Edwin