Why doesn't the minor matrix match?

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I'm working on an assignment to find the determinant using minor. I'm confused why minor doesn't match with the result, so that the final result is not same as the original determinant
syms L
disp('----------------------------------------------------------------');
% Use minors to expand the above determinant:
A = [2-L 8 10;8 4-L 5;10 5 7-L];
disp(A)
disp('x is lambda');
disp('----------------------------------------------------------------');
M11 = A([2,3],[2,3])
M12 = A([2,1],[2,3])
M13 = A([2,1],[2,2])
DM = A(1,1)*det(M11)-A(1,2)*det(M12)+A(1,3)*det(M13)
det(M11)
det(A)
please help me

 Accepted Answer

Cris LaPierre
Cris LaPierre on 19 Dec 2020
It looks like you have not correctly implemented the expansion of minors. Check your M arrays.

3 Comments

I managed to make a minor like this
M11 = A(2:3,[2,3])
M12 = A(2:3,[1,3])
M13 = A(2:3,[1,2])
and it worked
but, I don't know why the result didn't immediately calculate like this
- L^3 + 13*L^2 + 139*L - 42
on Command Window appears like this
DM = 164*L - (L - 2)*(L^2 - 11*L + 3) - 48
MATLAB doesn't "know" how you want it to appear. It provided an equivalent solution.
Add this after you compute DM.
simplify(DM)
I did it, thank you very much sir

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