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Find the value of the determinant .

Let

Using the property that if the equimultiples of corresponding elements of other rows (or columns) are added to every element of any row (or column) of a determinant, then the value of determinant remains the same


Using row transformation, R1R1-3R2


We get,



Using the property that if all elements of a row or column of a determinant are 0, the value of determinant is 0.


Hence ∆=0


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