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Exercise 4.2.29
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The elementary matrix of type and type is symmetric. So the statement holds naturally. Let be the elementary matrix of type of adding times of the -th row to the -th row. We know that is also an elementary matrix of type . By the previous exercise we know that this kind of matrix must have determinant .
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