Using power method to calculate dominant eigenvalue and eigenvectors

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Use the power method to calculate the dominant eigenvalue and its corresponding eigenvectors for the matrices.
The questions are attached with this thread. I have attempted both and seem to have done the first question correctly. I am attempting the second question and am stuck as after finding one eigenvector I got the same result again. Can anybody help me out with what I have to do here?

Also, when taking out a value from the matrix, should it be the middle value or the highest value in the matrix?

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Sounds like you found an eigenvector with eigenvalue 1, congratulations :-)

But you should probably try another, orthogonal, start vector too to see if there's another larger eigenvalue.