Question

What is the product?

Answer 1

Answer: the third option is correct

Step-by-step explanation:

The first matrix is a 2 × 3 matrix while the second matrix is a 3 × 2 matrix. To get the product of both matrices, we would multiply each term in each row by the terms in the corresponding column and add.

1) row 1, column 1

1×2 + 3×3 + 1×4 = 2 + 9 + 4 = 15

2) row 1, column 2

1×-2 + 3×5 + 1×1 = - 2 + 15 + 1 = 14

3) row 2, column 1

-2×-2 + 1×3 + 0×4 = - 4 + 3 + 0 = - 1

4) row 2, column 2

- 2×-2 + 1×5 + 0×1 = 4 + 5 = 9

The solution becomes

15 14

- 1 9