System of Linear Equations

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See also: System of Linear Equations
See also: Solving for Two Equations and Two Unknowns
See also: System of Linear Equations, Row Echelon Form

Linear Equation

If we have an equation: , we can write this in matrix form:
This is a linear equation, where we have a sequence of variables multiplied by coefficients, more generally, this is a linear equation with n unknown variables, and known coefficients, note the a at the beginning:
In 2 dimension (with two unknowns), this is a line; in 3 dimension, this is a surface.

System of Linear Equations

We have a system of linear equations, 3 equations and 3 unknowns:
We can define these:

Augmented Form

We can write W and v together like this, this is the augmented matrix of the system of linear equations: