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{"name": "Gaussian Elimination", "extensions": [], "custom_part_types": [], "resources": [], "navigation": {"allowregen": true, "showfrontpage": false, "preventleave": false, "typeendtoleave": false}, "question_groups": [{"pickingStrategy": "all-ordered", "questions": [{"ungrouped_variables": ["a", "b", "c", "c1", "c2", "c3", "y", "x", "z"], "preamble": {"css": "", "js": ""}, "functions": {}, "metadata": {"description": "<p>Solving a system of three linear equations in 3 unknowns using Gauss Elimination in 4 stages. Solutions are all integral.</p>", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International"}, "variables": {"c1": {"name": "c1", "description": "", "definition": "random(1..5)", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "c": {"name": "c", "description": "", "definition": "random(1..3)", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "c3": {"name": "c3", "description": "", "definition": "random(1..3)", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "c2": {"name": "c2", "description": "", "definition": "random(1..3)", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "a": {"name": "a", "description": "", "definition": "random(2..6)", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "x": {"name": "x", "description": "", "definition": "c3-(b*a-b)*z-b*y", "templateType": "anything", "group": "Ungrouped variables"}, "z": {"name": "z", "description": "", "definition": 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