Launch a browser and Maple.

Go to http://www.gac.edu/~holte/courses/mcs221//Maple/rowoperationslesson.html.

Read through this Maple lesson to learn how to use Maple to carry out row operations and Gaussian elimination on matrices and to solve systems of linear equations.

Do the following problems in a Maple worksheet.
Two people may work together.
You may enter your names (and your text comments) by selecting Insert and then selecting Text. To get another Maple > prompt, select Insert and then select Execution Group.
1. Use the Maple RowOperations command to solve Schneider & Barker Exercise 2.3.1 (a) and (d), p. 62.
   Compare your steps with the answers in the back of the book.
2. Use GaussianElimination: S&B Exercise 2.3.6(b), p. 63.
3. Use ReducedRowEchelonForm: S&B Exercise 2.4.1(a) and 2.4.3(a), p. 73.
4. Use LinearSolve: S&B Exercise 2.4.1(d) and 2.4.3(d), p. 73.