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Echelon and reduced echelon form

Use this for “Is [[1, 3, 4], [0, 1, 2]] in echelon form, reduced echelon form, or neither?”

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Read the leading entry of each row, then look above and below it.
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Assumptions

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Echelon form: any zero rows are at the bottom, and each leading entry is to the right of the one above, with zeros under it.
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Reduced echelon form also needs each leading entry to be 1 and the only nonzero number in its column.
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