Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Department of Mathematics

Mathematics-I

MA 101 
Tutorial Sheet-2

Date:
Time:

Aug

10-2015
08:00  09:00

Linear Algebra

Topics Covered:

Reduced Row-Echelon form (RREF), Gauss-Jordan elimination, Homogeneous systems, Rank of a matrix,. Inverse
of a matrix, Vector space Rn , Spanning set, Linear independance
1. Compute the rank of the following matrices


A2 =

1
3


2
4

1
A3 = 4
7

2
5
8

3
6
9

1
5

A4 =
9
13

2 3 4
6 7 8

10 11 12
14 15 16

Can you generalize this and guess the rank of An for n 2?

2. Using Gauss-Jordan method, check whether the following matrix is invertible or not! If yes, compute the
inverse. Can you write down A as a product of elementary matrices?

1
0 2
1 2
A= 3
5 2 3
3. In the following

1
(a) A = 3
5

cases nd out the conditions on bi 's so that the system is consistent / inconsistent.

b1
3 4
2
6 and b = b2 .
1 8
b3

(b)

x1 + 2x2 + 3x3 + 5x4 = b1

2x1 + 4x2 + 8x3 + 12x4 = b2
3x1 + 6x2 + 7x3 + 13x4 = b3
4. Determine if the vector b is a linear combination of the vectors a1 , a2 and a3 , where

a1 = [1, 2, 0]T

a2 = [0, 1, 2]T

a3 = [5, 6, 8]T

b = [2, 1, 6]T

5. State TRUE or FALSE. Give a brief justication.

(a) If the columns of an m n matrix A span Rm , then the equation Ax = b is consistent for each b Rm .
(b) Every homogeneous system has innitely many solutions.
(c) If the RREF of a 5 5 matrix A has the third column as [1, 2, 0, 0, 0]T then [1, 2, 1, 0, 0]T is a solution
of the homogeneous system AX = 0.
(d) For an n n matrix A, the systems AX = 0 and AT X = 0 are equivalent.
(e) Let A be a 4 3 matrix with rank(A) = 3, then there exists another 3 4 matrix B such that BA = I3 .
(f) Let A and B be two matrices of the same order having the same rank then they are row equivalent.
6. Does there exists a 2 2 matrix such that


A=

a
c


1
b
1
and A = a1
d
c

1
b
1
d

Justify your argument.

7. Give an example of a subset {u1 , u2 , u3 } R3 which is linearly dependent but any two of these are linearly
independent.