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All right, so we want to solve this system.
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We're going to use the method of undetermined coefficients.
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So what we're going to do, i'm going to rewrite this as a vector equation.
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So i'm going to call capital x a column vector that looks like that.
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And we're going to have a vector a that looks like this, which are the coefficients up here of x and y.
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And then we'll have another vector b that looks like that.
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So then we can rewrite our equation.
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So the first step in doing undetermined coefficients is to find the complementary solution where we set b equal to zero and find the solution to this equation.
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So to find the solution to that equation we have to find the eigenvalues of a.
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We take our matrix a, take that determinant and set it equal to zero.
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That tells us that lambda is plus or minus one...