Linear Algebra Eigenval and Eigenvec related question.

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Show that A = $\left[\begin{array}{ccc} 0 &0 &0\cr -4 &2 &2\cr 6 &-3 &-3 \end{array}\right]$ and $B=\left[\begin{array}{ccc} -9 &-3 &-9\cr 15 &5 &15\cr 3 &1 &3 \end{array}\right]$ are similar matrices by finding an invertible matrix satisfying $A=P^{-1} B P$ (Hint: the matrices and are diagonalizable with the same eigenvalues.)

$P^{-1}=\left[\begin{array}{ccc} & & \cr & & \cr & & \end{array}\right]$ and $P=\left[\begin{array}{ccc} & & \cr & & \cr & & \end{array}\right]$

I started to find the eigenvalue and eigenvector of B, but I cannot get it right. What should I do next?

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You can easily see that the null space for the matrices has dimension $2$ therefore $\lambda=0$ are $2$ eigenvalues and by the trace we can see that also $\lambda=-1$ is an eigenvalue.

Form here we can proceed to find eigenvectors and then find the matrix $P$.

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