a) There are thirty students in your class. If 17 are engineers and 21 are student athletes, how many are both? b) One of these students asks you to solve the following problem using matrix inversion:  [1 3       [   x           =  [ 4     2  1 ]           y ]              5 ]       How would you solve it?

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a) There are thirty students in your class. If 17 are engineers and 21 are student athletes, how many are both?

b) One of these students asks you to solve the following problem using matrix inversion:

 [1 3       [   x           =  [ 4    

2  1 ]           y ]              5 ]      

How would you solve it?   

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