Transform the below system into the simpler upper triangular form & describ in terms of elementary row operations on the augmented coefficient matrix a11x1 + a12x2 +. . .   + a1nxn = b1,a21x1 + a22x2 +" " " + a2nxn = b2,an1x1 + an2x2 +" " " + annxn =bn

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Transform the below system into the simpler upper triangular form & describ in terms of elementary row operations on the augmented coefficient matrix

a11x1 + a12x2 +. . .   + a1nxn = b1,
a21x1 + a22x2 +" " " + a2nxn = b2,

an1x1 + an2x2 +" " " + annxn =bn

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