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Matrix A has two pivots on the main diagonal, that is, being one down and one right from the one before it.
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\n" ); document.write( "1) This implies that the reduced echelon form of A is I2 - the identity matrix
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\n" ); document.write( "2) This means that if A has two pivots, then A is equivalent to the 2 by 2 identity matrix
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\n" ); document.write( "Also 2) implies that A is invertable because
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\n" ); document.write( "\" an n x n matrix, called A is invertible iff (if and only if) A is row equivalent to In , and any sequence of elementary row operations that reduces A to In also transforms In into A-1\"
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