How do you add matrices?

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We can only add (or subtract) matrices of the same dimension. We just add entries having the same position(s) in the matrices.

For instance

[3 4 ] + [ 5 6 ] = [ 8 10 ]

This idea can be extended to any number of matices of like dimension.

CPhill Oct 8, 2014

CPhill · Answer 1 · 2014-10-08T03:16:23

We can only add (or subtract) matrices of the same dimension. We just add entries having the same position(s) in the matrices.

For instance

[3 4 ] + [ 5 6 ] = [ 8 10 ]

This idea can be extended to any number of matices of like dimension.