An elementary row operation interchanges two rows of a matrix, multiplies one row by a nonzero scalar, or adds a scalar multiple of another row to it. These invertible operations are used in Gaussian elimination. For a square matrix, interchange changes the sign of its determinant, multiplication scales its determinant by the same scalar, and adding another row leaves its determinant unchanged, by multilinearity and alternation.
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