Exercise 4.3.18

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For the first case, let A be a matrix of type 2 meaning multiplying the i-th row by a scalar c. We have det (A) = c by Exercise 4.2.28. And since determinant is linear function of the i-th row when other rows are held fixed, we have

det (AB) = cdet (B) = det (A)det (B).

For the second case, let A be a matrix of type 3 meaning adding c times the i-row to the j-th row. We have det (A) = 1 by Exercise 4.2.28. And since determinant will not change when we adding some times the i-row to the j-th row, we have

det (AB) = det (B) = det (A)det (B).
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