Re: Solving linear systems in matrix notation?
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- Subject: [mg68238] Re: Solving linear systems in matrix notation?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:48:12 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 7/29/06 at 1:00 AM, ben.carbery at spam.me (Ben) wrote:
>I have been following a tutorial that says to solve systems of
>linear equations like so:
>Solve[{2x + 4y == -4, 5x + 7y == 11}, {x, y}]
>I am wondering if there is a shorthand way to do it by just entering
>the co-efficients of each equation, i.e. matrix style:
Yes, LinearSolve is used for this purpose, i.e.,
In[4]:=
LinearSolve[{{2,4},{5,7}},{-4,11}]
Out[4]=
{12,-7}
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