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<span class="exam">True or false: If all the entries of a &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">7\times 7</math>&nbsp; matrix &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">A</math>&nbsp; are &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: -4px">7,</math>&nbsp; then &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">\text{det }A</math>&nbsp; must be &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">7^7.</math>
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<span class="exam">True or false: If &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">A</math>&nbsp; is an invertible &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">3\times 3</math>&nbsp; matrix, and &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">B</math>&nbsp; and &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">C</math>&nbsp; are &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">3\times 3</math>&nbsp; matrices such that &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: -4px">AB=AC,</math>&nbsp; then &nbsp;<math style="vertical-align: 0px">B=C.</math>
  
 
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Revision as of 13:17, 9 October 2017

True or false: If    is an invertible    matrix, and    and    are    matrices such that    then  

Solution:  
First, we switch to the limit to so that we can use L'Hopital's rule.
So, we have

       

Final Answer:  
       False

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