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Row Reduction & Rank · Challenge problem

Elimination without row exchanges on a 4×44\times 4 matrix AA used the multipliers ℓ21=2\ell_{21} = 2, ℓ31=3\ell_{31} = 3, ℓ32=4\ell_{32} = 4, ℓ41=1\ell_{41} = 1, ℓ42=−1\ell_{42} = -1, ℓ43=2\ell_{43} = 2, so A=LUA = LU with

L=(1000210034101−121).L = \begin{pmatrix} 1 & 0 & 0 & 0 \\ 2 & 1 & 0 & 0 \\ 3 & 4 & 1 & 0 \\ 1 & -1 & 2 & 1 \end{pmatrix}.

Find the entry in row 4, column 1 of L−1L^{-1}.