find all solutions to the system of linear equations. Use your favorite computing device to row-reduce the augmented matrices for the systems, and write the solutions as a set, using correct set notation
belongs to book: A First Course in Linear Algebra|Robert A. Beezer|| Chapter number:1| Question number:C12
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The augmented matrix row-reduces to
In the spirit of Example SAA, we can express the infinitely many solutions of this system compactly with set notation. The key is to express certain variables in terms of others. More specifically, each pivot column number is the index of a variable that can be written in terms of the variables whose indices are non-pivot columns. Or saying the same thing: for each i in D, we can find an expression for xi in terms of the variables without their index in D. Here D = {1, 3}, so
x1 = 2 − 2x2 + 4x4 . x3 = −6 − 3x4
As a set, we write the solutions precisely as