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What is the slope of any line parallel to the line 8x+9y=3 in the standard (x, y) coordinate plane?

Bocephus has a bag full of nickels and dimes. if there are 3 times as many dimes as nickels, and he has $\$36.05$ in his bag, how many nickels does he have?

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.