SOLUTION: Solve the matrix equation:
{{{(matrix(2,2,4,-5,1,2))(matrix(2,1,m,n))}}}{{{""=""}}}{{{(matrix(2,1,32,-5))}}}
please show work...I'm stuck on this and cannot figure out what to
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-> SOLUTION: Solve the matrix equation:
{{{(matrix(2,2,4,-5,1,2))(matrix(2,1,m,n))}}}{{{""=""}}}{{{(matrix(2,1,32,-5))}}}
please show work...I'm stuck on this and cannot figure out what to
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This is really the matrix abbreviation for the system of equtions:
Now we need to find the inverse of the coefficient matrix
To find the inverse of a 2x2 matrix:
1. Interchange the upper left and lower right elements:
2. Multiply the upper right and lower left elements by -1:
3. Find the determinant of this matrix:
4. Divide every element of by this value:
That is the inverse of the coefficient matrix.
Left-multiply both sides of the matrix
equation:
by the inverse of the coefficient matrix:
Since matrix multiplication is associative, we can move
the parentheses from around the 2nd and 3rd matrices
on the left to around the 1st and 2nd matrices on the
left:
Now we multiply the two matrices on the far
left and the far right:
Simplify:
Multiply the matrices on the left:
Simplify:
So the solution is
,
Edwin