1 SOLUTIONS Notes: f time is needed for other topics, this chapter may be omitted
Section 5
2 contains enough information about determinants to support the discussion there of the characteristic polynomial of a matrix
In section 5
1, some exercises in this section provide practice in computing determinants, while others allow the student to discover the properties of determinants which will be studied in the next section
Determinants are developed through the cofactor expansion, which is given in Theorem 1
Exercises 33–36 in this section provide the first step in the inductive proof of Theorem 3 in the next section
A “Checkpoint” in the Study Guide leads students to discover that if the kth column of the identity matrix is replaced by a vector x, then the determinant of the resu