Gaussian Elimination
Gaussian elimination is the process of getting Augmented Matrices to their Row-Echelon-Form (REF) using Elementary Row Operations.
Example:
Perform gaussian elimination on the following augmented matrix:
Note: We generally perform gaussian elimination by working our way left to right, top to bottom. We start at the first column and find the first Pivot then collapse all values bellow to
. Then continue this process until we are at the right most column.