A system of linear equations has no solution, or Inconsistent Solution exactly one solution, or Consistent+one solution=unique Sol Consistent Solution

infinitely many solutions If the augmented matrices of two linear systems are row equivalent, then the two systems have the same solution set.

Each different choice of x3 determines a (different) solution of the system, and every solution of the system is determined by a choice of x3. Parametric Discription of Solution set in which the free variables act as parameters Whenever a system is inconsistent, the solution set is empty, even when the system has free variables. In this case, the solution set has no parametric representation.

whenever there are some free variables in system of equations, sol of equations never be uniqueand have infinitely many solution

A matrix with only one column is called a column vector, or simply a vector The vector whose entries are all zero is called the zero vector and is denoted by 0.

Linear Combinations
Given vectors v1; v2; : : : ; vp in Rn and given scalars c1; c2; : : : ; cp, the vector y defined

y =c1v1+ _ _ _ +Cpvp

the domain of T is Rn when A has n columns and the codomain of T is Rm when each column of A has m entries. The range of T is the set of all linear combinations of the columns of A, because each image T .x/ is of the form Ax.

A matrix that is not invertible is sometimes called a singular matrix, and an invertible matrix is called a nonsingular matrix