ECZ 2018 · GCE Paper 1 — Matrices

The transpose of a matrix P is [1 3 4; 2 5 1; 3 0 1] (rows separated by semicolons). Write down the matrix P.

  • A. [1 2 3; 3 5 0; 4 1 1]
  • B. [1 3 4; 2 5 1; 3 0 1]
  • C. [3 0 1; 2 5 1; 1 3 4]
  • D. [4 3 1; 1 5 2; 1 0 3]

Verified working — step 1

Transposing swaps rows and columns. To recover P from Pᵀ, transpose again: the columns of Pᵀ become the rows of P, giving P = …

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