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What is the value of x in the matrix equation below?

What is the value of x in the matrix equation below?-example-1
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Answer: D) 1

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Step-by-step explanation:

The -2 outside the first matrix multiplies to every item inside that first matrix.

So the x updates to -2x in the upper left corner.

That -2x adds to the 3 in the upper left corner of the second matrix. The sum -2x+3 must be equal to the value in the upper left corner of the third matrix.

Everything is focused on the upper left corner.

So we must solve -2x+3 = x

Doing so leads to...

-2x+3 = x

3 = x+2x

3 = 3x

3x = 3

x = 3/3

x = 1

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