What happens to the row and column pictures when we move from two dimensions to three—and why does only one of them generalize?
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Equations as planes in
Write the three-equation system with rows , , , then record the chain: one plane, two planes meeting in a line, three planes meeting in a point.
Reading the solution off the columns
Regroup the system as , note that is the third column itself, and give the solution .
A second right-hand side
Identify this as column one plus column two and write the solution that the identification produces.
How each picture scales with dimension
State that the row picture stops being drawable past three unknowns, while the column picture stays the same search for scalars combining columns to reach in any dimension.