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✅ Correct Option: 1

In a diagonal matrix of order 33 all off-diagonal entries are fixed at 00, so only the three diagonal entries can be chosen.

Each of a11,a22,a33a_{11},a_{22},a_{33} has 22 choices (11 or 22), giving 23=82^3=8 matrices.

Note: The phrase "elements either 1 or 2" cannot apply to the off-diagonal entries of a diagonal matrix; we have taken it as referring to the diagonal entries only.

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