MinusOneTrick.md (354B)
1 # Minus One Trick 2 3 Ch 2.2 4 5 **Definition:** The minus one trick is a method used to find general solutions to a system of equations by making a rectangular matrix a square matrix and adding -1 into each position along the diagnal that is not 1. 6 7 By doing this we can then simply read out the general solution to the matrix instead of having to derive it.