SOLUTION: how do you add and subtract matrices?

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Question 369886: how do you add and subtract matrices?
Answer by robertb(5830) About Me  (Show Source):
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The two matrices have to have the same order, or size (i.e., the same number of rows and the same number of columns.) After that it's just addition/subtraction of corresponding entries. The sum/difference matrix has the same order or size as the matrices involved in the operation.