Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2001/ib/paper-2/5e/solution

Gaussian elimination uses first-column multipliers , second-column multiplier in the last row, and third-column multiplier there. Recording these in a unit lower-triangular matrix gives the LU decomposition
Forward substitution in gives . Back substitution gives , , , and . Hence the solution is

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