Elementary Linear Algebra 7th Edition

Published by Cengage Learning
ISBN 10: 1-13311-087-8
ISBN 13: 978-1-13311-087-3

Chapter 2 - Matrices - 2.1 Operations with Matrices - 2.1 Exercises - Page 50: 75

Answer

See below.

Work Step by Step

Let $A$ be an $n\times m$ matrix and $B$ be an $o\times p$ matrix. Then by definition, for AB to be defined, $m=p$ and $n=o$, for BA to be defined, $m=o$ and $n=p$; thus $o=n=m=p$, and thus they are both square matrices. Therefore, we proved what we had to.
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