Exercise S.T20 Robert Beezer

A square matrix $A$ of size $n$ is upper triangular if $\matrixentry{A}{ij}=0$ whenever $i>j$. Let $UT_n$ be the set of all upper triangular matrices of size $n$. Prove that $UT_n$ is a subspace of the vector space of all square matrices of size $n$, $M_{nn}$.

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