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                                           Figure 8.8: A parallelepiped.



                   8.5     Review Problems


                                    Reading Problems        5    ,6
                                       Row of zeros              12
                                    3 × 3 determinant            13
                   Webwork:
                                 Triangular determinants    14,15,16,17
                                 Expanding in a column           18
                                  Minors and cofactors           19

                      1. Find the determinant via expanding by minors.

                                                                 
                                                       2 1 3 7
                                                       6 1 4 4
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                       2 1 8 0
                                                                 
                                                       1 0 2 0

                                                                     T
                                                                              T
                      2. Even if M is not a square matrix, both MM and M M are square. Is
                                                           T
                                              T
                         it true that det(MM ) = det(M M) for all matrices M? How about
                                T
                                           T
                         tr(MM ) = tr(M M)?
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