Gaussian elimination: reducing matrices to row echelon form:
- any rows of zeros are at the bottom
- each leading entry of a row is in a column to the right of the leading
entry of the row above it
- entries below a leading entry are zero
Reduced row echelon form:
- leading entries are 1
- eaching leading entry is in a column by itself
From reduced row echelon form, we can read off the solution set.