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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2009 Paper 1 15 a i Solution by
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The scalar triple product is the determinant of the matrix with columns . A cyclic permutation of three columns is a product of two swaps, so its determinant sign is positive. Therefore . This uses the alternating multilinearity of the determinant, and remains true for linearly dependent vectors.
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