Property of skew symmetric matrix

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Prove that the determinent of a skew symmetric matrix of even order remains unchanged if the same number is added to all the elements

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You can consider a skew symmetric matrix of lets say order 2x2 of the elements [0,a,-a,0] and add it to k times a matrix with all terms 1..

Now generally |A+B| is not equal to |A|+|B| but this does hold good for the case stated above, so the matrix with all terms 1, of even order will be 0 giving us the same result...

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