Two schools A and B want to award their selected students on the values of sincerity, truthfulness and helpfulness. The school A wants to award ₹x each ₹y each and ₹ z each for the three respective values to 3, 2 and 1 students respectively with total award money of ₹16,00. School B wants to Spend ₹2,300 to award its 4,1 and 3 students on the respective values (by giving the same award money to the three values as before). If the total amount of award for one prize on each value is ₹900, using matrices, find the award money for each value, Apart from these three values, suggest one more value which should be considered for the award.

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Let the numbers are x, y,z be the prize amount per person for sincerity, truthfulness and helpfulness respectively.As per the given data we get,
3x + 2y + z = 1600
4x + y + 3z = 2300
x + y + z = 900
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|A| = 3(1 – 3) – 2(4 – 3) + 1(4 – 1)= – 5
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