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4.40 When balancing the following chemical reaction by conserving the number of atoms of each element
between reactants and products:
Solve for the unknown stoichiometric coefficients using
(a) The user-defined function GaussJordan that was developed in Problem 4.22.
(b) MATLAB’s left division operation.
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(b) The following script file to solve the problem by using MATLAB’s left division.
clear, clc
A=[-4 0 1 1; 0 0 1 0; 0 -2 4 3; 0 -1 0 4];
b=[2; 4; 0; 0];
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