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Determinants & Inverses · Medium problem
A budget tracker records quarterly amounts for three expense categories as the rows of . An auditor suspects category 's row is fully explained as a combination of categories and (so , confirmed). The Q3 entry for category (currently ) was recorded sloppily; find the smallest positive integer amount by which it must be increased for the three categories to stop being redundant (i.e. for to become nonzero).