A pirate ship found a treasure chest that contained 127 gold coins and 253 silver coins. If there are 38 pirates on the ship and they split the coins evenly, how many coins did they collect?

To diagonalize an nxn matrix a means to find an invertible matrix p and a diagonal matrix d such that a pdp d p ap or [1 3 dh epap 3 let a=-3 -5 -3 3 3 1 step 1: find the eigenvalues of matrix a "2's" step 2: find the corresponding eigenvectors of a step 3: createp from eigenvectors in step 2 step 4 create d with matching eigenvalues.