Basketball A basketball player makes 8 of 12 free throws in the first game of the season. If she shoots with the same
accuracy in the second game, how many of the 15 free
throws she attempts will she make?

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.