I understand that you can find the determinant of a matrix along it's diagonal if it is in triangular form. For a matrix such as this:
(15024−10−20)
When put into triangular form I get:
(150011/6001/3)
Since I multiplied row two by -1/6 during the row reduction I would expect the determinant to be
1⋅1⋅1/3⋅(−1/6),
but the answer for the determinant of the original matrix is -2. Where exactly am I going wrong?
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