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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 ia Paper 1 8B a iii Solution by
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Rescaling the first basis vector gives the change-of-basis matrix , invertible because . Direct multiplication givesThus the matrices are related by matrix similarity. In terms of basis images, the coefficient along the rescaled first basis vector is divided by , while the second component of its image is multiplied by .
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