Homework 1

Dept. of Busi. Admin.

National Chung Cheng University
Linear Algebra 2009

Shih-Pin Chen
March 1, 2013

Due: before class, March 8, 2013

1. Problem 31, p.10
A plastics manufacturer makes two types of plastic: regular and special. Each ton of regular
plastic requires 2 hours in plant A and 5 hours in plant B; each ton of special plastic requires 2 hours
in plant A and 3 hours in plant B. If plant A is available 8 hours per day and plant B is available 15
hours per day, how many tons of each type of plastic can be made daily so that the plants are fully
used ?
2. Problem 21, p.20
A weather forecasting service records the high and low temperatures each day. The information
for a given week is presented by two vectors a and b, showing the high and low temperatures,
respectively. What expression gives the average daily temperatures for the entire 7-day week?
3. Problem 37, p.32
Write each of the following linear combination of columns as a linear system of the form in (4):
0
3
1
2
1

2 5

(a) x1 x2 , (b) x1 2 x2
1 x3
4 x4
3
5
3
5
6

1
2
5
4
8

4. Problem 49, p.33

(Manufacturing Costs) A furniture manufacturer makes chairs and tables, each of which must go
through an assembly process and a finishing process. The times required for these processes are
given (in hours) by the matrix
Assembly Finishing
process
process
2
2 Chair

A=
4
3
Table
The manufacturer has a plant in Salt Lake City and another in Chicago. The hourly rates for each of
the process are given (in dollars) by the matrix
Salt Lake
City
Chicago
10 Assembly process
9
B=
12
10
Finishing process
What do the entries in the matrix product AB tell the manufacturer?