Understand Operation: Understand the operation to be performed.We need to multiply each element of the matrix by −2. This is a scalar multiplication of a matrix.
Multiply First Element: Multiply the first element of the matrix by −2.−2×−1=2
Multiply Second Element: Multiply the second element of the first row by −2.−2×3=−6
Multiply First Row: Multiply the first element of the second row by −2.−2×4=−8
Multiply Second Row: Multiply the second element of the second row by −2.−2×2=−4
Write Resulting Matrix: Write down the resulting matrix with the products calculated in the previous steps.The resulting matrix is:[2−6−8−4]
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