VECTOR, MATRICES

AND DETERMINANTS
LINEAR SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS GAUSS ELIMINATION
GAUSS ELIMINATION AND BACK SUBSTITUTION
Example 2 illustrates the operations of the Gauss elimination. These are the first two of three operations, which are
called
Elementary Row Operations for Matrices:
• Interchange of two rows
• Addition of a constant multiple of one row to another row
• Multiplication of a row by a nonzero constant c
CAUTION! These operations are for rows, not for columns! They correspond to the following

Elementary Operations for Equations:

• Interchange of two equations
• Addition of a constant multiple of one equation to another equation
Multiplication of an equation by a nonzero constant c
LINEAR SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS: GAUSS ELIMINATION

Because of this theorem, systems having the same solution sets are often
called equivalent systems.
REFERENCES

• Kreyszig, Erwin, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 10TH edition. 2011