UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND

LINEAR ALGEBRA & DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MODULE: SMTH222 ASSIGNMENT

DUE: 04/09/2017 PAGE 1 MARKS: 20

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1. Consider the following matrices A. Find the bases for Col A, Row A, Nul A, and list
rank A, dim Nul A.   (15)
7 7 −14 0 7 −14
7 14 −21 0 −14 −21


A = 7 −7 0 0 7 42 

7 −14 14 7 −21 0 

7 −14 7 0 14 −7
 

[Hint:] Do tutorial five and read supplementary notes on vector spaces (Available on
Moodle).

2. Find the eigenvalues and a basis for each eigenspace in C2 . (5)

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2 −4
2 6
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