Exercise 33.

We define the trace of a \(2 \times 2\) matrix to be the sum of its diagonal entries. That is, the trace of
\begin{equation*} A =\begin{pmatrix} a & b \\ c & d \end{pmatrix} \end{equation*}
is \(\trace(A) = a + d\text{.}\) Show that \(\trace(AB) = \trace(BA)\) for any \(2 \times 2\) matrices \(A\) and \(B\text{.}\)
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