MT210 QUIZ 10 SAMPLE 1

İLKER S. YÜCE
APRIL 19, 2011

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QUESTION 1. §3.2 PROPERTIES OF DETERMINANT
Use row operations to show that the determinant below is 0.
 
 1 a b + c 

 1 b a + c 

 1 c a+b 

ANSWER

     
1 a b+c 1 a b+c 1 a b+c
A= 1 b a+c  /
−R1 +R2 ↔R2
 0 b−a a−b  /
−R1 +R3 ↔R3
 0 b−a a−b =B
1 c a+b 1 c a+b 0 c−a a−c

We have det A=det B and det B=(b-a)(a-c)-(a-b)(c-a)=(b-a)(a-c)-(b-a)(a-c)=0.