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Week1 02
Le Xuan Truong
Determinant of a 2 × 2 matrix
A11 A12
A= ⇒ det(A) = A11 A22 − A12 A21
A21 A22
Example:
1 2
A= ⇒ det(A) = 1.4 − 2.3 = −2
3 4
−3 5
B= ⇒ det(A) = −3.1 − 4.5 = −23
4 1
The determinant of the square matrix A can be written as the sum of the
cofactors of any row or column of the matrix multiplied by
the entries that generated them
The last row operation is adding a multiple of one row to another row
λ ∈R
di −−→ di + λdj
4 1 2 3