Trey was cutting down a dead tree that was 24 3/4 feet tall in 6 equal cuts. What is the average change in height for each cut?

4 1/8 feet
-4 1/8 feet
-6 feet
6 feet

To diagonalize an nxn matrix a means to find an invertible matrix p and a diagonal matrix d such that a pdp d p ap or [1 3 dh epap 3 let a=-3 -5 -3 3 3 1 step 1: find the eigenvalues of matrix a "2's" step 2: find the corresponding eigenvectors of a step 3: createp from eigenvectors in step 2 step 4 create d with matching eigenvalues.