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7.57 (a), §2 Direct

Put in a checkerboard sign pattern (starting with +):

Select a row and expand in signs, coefficients, and minors. Here the second row may be best:

Repeat for each of the smaller determinants until the determinants are small enough to be directly written out, eg,


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