How can one system of linear equations be understood through three completely different geometric pictures?
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The matrix form
Write the system , as coefficient matrix with rows and , unknown , and .
Equations as lines meeting at one point
Record that each equation is a line in the -plane, plot both lines from two points each, and read off the intersection with the check .
Linear combination of the columns of
Define a linear combination as scaling each vector and adding, regroup the system as , and carry , through both components.