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I started out at a community college because I got a scholarship that would pay me $13,000 if I did. I was able to transfer for next fall, but not graduate from their because I needed some dumb requirements they had for PE and Political Science. I can get an associates in my intended major of...

Homework Statement First Question. How many even Permutations does a 5x5 matrix have? In other words how many permutations are there that would make it +1 instead of -1. Second Question. v= (3,2) w= (4,1) use determinants to find the area of a triangle with sides v, w and v+w...

I am currently using Gilbert Strang's "Linear Algebra and its applications" and am finding the book to be very terrible, there are very few examples in the section introductions and no 2 problems seem to relate, the author loves to hide how to do things all over the book or sometimes in the...