Row reduction method and rank of a matrix

1. Matrices are just a display of set of numbers and it does not have any value For example
is a 2 by 3 matrix having 2 rows and 3 columns.
Aij represents a matrix element of i’th row and jth column for example here A₁₂=6 and A₂₁=-2

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