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What is the value of the determinant?
|1 7|
|0 -3|

What is the value of the determinant? |1 7| |0 -3|-example-1
User MrCooL
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Answer:

- 3

Explanation:

Given the 2 x 2 matrix
\left[\begin{array}{ccc}ab\\cd\\\end{array}\right]

Then the determinant = ad - bc

Hence for
\left[\begin{array}{ccc}1&7\\0&-3\\\end{array}\right]

determinant = (1 × - 3) - (7 × 0) = - 3 - 0 = - 3

User Nishith
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Answer:

-3

Explanation:

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