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If you were performing these operations by hand, you would write the
following:










−
−
−
−≅










−
−
−
−=
4
3
7
124
123
321
4
3
14
124
123
642
aug
A










−−−
≅










−
−
−−
−−≅
32
3
7
1360
110
321
32
24
7
1360
880
321
aug
A










−−
≅
14
3
7
700
110
321
aug
A
The symbol ≅ (“ is equivalent to”) indicates that what follows is equivalent to
the previous matrix with some row (or column) operations involved.
The resulting matrix is upper-triangular, and equivalent to the set of equations
X +2Y+3Z = 7,
Y+ Z = 3,
-7Z = -14,
which can now be solved, one equation at a time, by backward substitution,
as in the previous example.
Gauss-Jordan elimination using matrices
Gauss-Jordan elimination consists in continuing the row operations in the
upper-triangular matrix resulting from the forward elimination process until an
identity matrix results in place of the original A matrix. For example, for the
case we just presented, we can continue the row operations as follows:
Multiply row 3 by –1/7: 7\Y 3 @RCI!
Multiply row 3 by –1, add it to row 2, replacing it: 1\ # 3
#2 @RCIJ!