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Q53Section C (Section C)53 of 60

Trace of a cube under similarity

Consider the matrix A=(100032014).A=\begin{pmatrix}1&0&0\\0&3&2\\0&1&4\end{pmatrix}. Let PP be a non-singular matrix such that P−1APP^{-1}AP is a diagonal matrix. Then the trace of the matrix P−1A3PP^{-1}A^{3}P equals __________

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