The expansion of a 3 × 3 determinant can be remembered by the following device. Write a second copy of the first two columns to the tight of the matrix, and compute the determinant by multiplying entries on six diagonals:
Add the downward diagonal products and subtract the up-ward products. Use this method to compute the determinants in Exercises 15–18. Warning: This trick does not generalize in any reasonable way to 4 × 4 or larger matrices.
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