Linear AlgebraHardRow Reduction & Rank
Row Reduction & Rank · Hard problem
A square metal plate has its four interior grid points' steady-state temperatures (top row) and (bottom row) each equal to the average of their four neighbors. The top edge is held at , the bottom edge at , and both side edges at (so the setup is symmetric left-to-right, meaning and ). The resulting equations are , , , . Find .