En álgebra lineal, la matriz aumentada, o matriz ampliada, de una matriz se obtiene al combinar dos matrices tal y como se muestra a continuación. Sean las matrices y , donde Entonces la matriz aumentada se representa de la siguiente manera: Esta notación es útil para resolver sistemas de ecuaciones lineales dados por matrices cuadradas. También se puede utilizar para encontrar la inversa de una matriz.

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In linear algebra, an augmented matrix is a matrix obtained by appending the columns of two given matrices, usually for the purpose of performing the same elementary row operations on each of the given matrices. Given the matrices A and B, where the augmented matrix (A|B) is written as This is useful when solving systems of linear equations. For a given number of unknowns, the number of solutions to a system of linear equations depends only on the rank of the matrix representing the system and the rank of the corresponding augmented matrix. Specifically, according to the Rouché–Capelli theorem, any system of linear equations is inconsistent (has no solutions) if the rank of the augmented matrix is greater than the rank of the coefficient matrix; if, on the other hand, the ranks of these two matrices are equal, the system must have at least one solution. The solution is unique if and only if the rank equals the number of variables. Otherwise the general solution has k free parameters where k is the difference between the number of variables and the rank; hence in such a case there are an infinitude of solutions. An augmented matrix may also be used to find the inverse of a matrix by combining it with the identity matrix.

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