Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 ib Paper 2 10F b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-29
For all but finitely many , the matrix is invertible. Part (a), applied to and , then givesBoth sides are polynomials in the two variables . Since they agree for infinitely many values of , their coefficients as polynomials in agree. Setting yieldseven when is singular.