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CAPE Pure Mathematics Unit 2 · May/June 2018 · Paper 2 · Question 5(d)(ii)

Two matrices are given as A = [[5, -2, 3], [0, 3, -4], [2, 0, 6]] and B = [[18, 12, -1], [-8, 24, 20], [-6, -4, 15]].

Hence, or otherwise, solve the system of equations given by [[5, -2, 3], [0, 3, -4], [2, 0, 6]] [[x], [y], [z]] = [[7], [11], [-6]].

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