Prove that inverse of every square matrix if exist, is unique.

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Consider a square matrix ALet if possible, there exist two inverses B and Cof A.Then it implies that,           AB=BA=I        .....1and    AC=CA=I        .....2Where I is the identity matrix of the same order as A and BNote that any matrix multiplied by identity matrix is thematrix itself. This implies that,   B=BI      =BAC      I=AC from 2       =BAC      By associativity of matrix        =IC          BA=I from 1       =CThis proves that B=CTherefore it is proved that the inverse of any square matrix is unique.

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