College Algebra (6th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-32178-228-3
ISBN 13: 978-0-32178-228-1

Chapter 6 - Matrices and Determinants - Exercise Set 6.2 - Page 611: 39

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

The second form is better because this also says that we have infinitely many solutions (because of the free variable) but it also tells us how the other variables depend on the free one. (If the third one equals $z$, then the first one is $4z+3$ and the second one is $5z-1$.)
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