Thread: Matrices

This matrix is said to be quickly solvable but im not sure of the trick:

-1 1 1 1 1
1 -1 1 1 1
1 1 -1 1 1
1 1 1 -1 1
1 1 1 1 -1

the matrix is all 1's with -1's on the main diagonal, im not sure if i should row reduce until i have an upper triangular matrix and use product of diagonal entries or if there is a simple trick im missing
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the answer is 48 according to my ti-89

Originally Posted by Derill03

This matrix is said to be quickly solvable but im not sure of the trick:

-1 1 1 1 1
1 -1 1 1 1
1 1 -1 1 1
1 1 1 -1 1
1 1 1 1 -1

the matrix is all 1's with -1's on the main diagonal, im not sure if i should row reduce until i have an upper triangular matrix and use product of diagonal entries or if there is a simple trick im missing
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the answer is 48 according to my ti-89

This doesn't make any sense.

What are you trying to solve?