1 Two radio stations are playing this week's #1 hit song. One radio station plays the song every 18 minutes. The other radio station plays the song every 24 minutes. Both stations play the song at 3pm. How many minutes will pass before they play the same song again.

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.