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After the forward elimination step of the Gauss elimination method, the coefficient matrix is reduced to ____________(a) a lower triangular matrix(b) an upper triangular matrix(c) a diagonal matrix(d) a banded matrixThis question was addressed to me in a job interview.The origin of the question is Numerical Methods in portion Numerical Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics

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The CORRECT answer is (b) an upper triangular matrix

For EXPLANATION I would say: After the forward ELIMINATION step, the main diagonal ELEMENTS and the elements above it are non-ZEROS. All the elements below the main diagonal are zeros. So, we can say that it gives an upper triangular matrix to be solved.



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