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Consider the Matrix A given in the attachment. By considering the appropriate row operations and their associated elementary matrices, compute an invertible matrix B (meeting given criteria) such that B.A = [[1 0 * *] [ 0 1 * *] [ 0 0 * *]], where * denotes a nonzero number.

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