Which of the following is correct?
Determinant is a square matrix.
Determinant is a number associated to a matrix.
Determinant is a number associated to a square matrix.
None of these.
We know that to every square matrix,
A=\(\begin{bmatrix}aij\end{bmatrix}\)of order n.
We can associate a number called the determinant of square matrix A, where \(\begin{bmatrix}aij\end{bmatrix}\)=(i,j)th element of A.
Thus, the determinant is a number associated to a square matrix.
Hence, the correct answer is C.
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