UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS. UNIVERSITEITSEKSAMENS UNISA fess MAT1503 CctoberiNovember 2016 LINEAR ALGEBRA Duraton 2 Hours 100 Marks EXAMINERS. FIRST. DRL GODLOZA 0R Ze MPONO SECOND DR HUNTLEY Closed book examination ‘This examination question paper remains the property of the University of South Africa and may not be romoved from the examination venue ‘This paper consists of 4 pages Answer All Questions [TURN OVER}2 MAT1503 October/Novernber 2016 QUESTION 1 52+ 3y=1 a—dy=8 (2) Solve the following system (4) (b) Find the reduced row echelon form of the following mater 123 141 219 6) (e) Let 15 34 3-1 2 =l 2 a{ S| a 3 2-3 1-3 (Q) compute AB (2) (1) compute AC @) (a) what do you observe about AB and AC? ay (iv) let D= BC and compute AD @) (a) Let 43 1 3-5 -[f i} [4 -2 ‘| Given that X us a mate such that AX = B, (0) find the sizes of the matnces A and B re (u) what size should matrx X have? (2) (iu) find the matmx X — [ffimt X = A“1B] (5) (25) (TURN OVER}3 MAT1503 October/November 2016 QUESTION 2 (a) Using Cramer's rule, solve the following system Te+8y=5 62+ 9y (6) (b) Evaluate the determinant of the following matrrx 2 00-3 0-10 0 7438 6 22 4 (7) (c) Suppose that A? = A and prove that det(A) = 0 or det(A) = 1 6) {d) Two matrices A and B are called SIMILAR if there exists an invertible matrix P such that A= PBP~) If A and B are simular, then prove that det(A) = det(B) 65) (@) Given the matrix -12 oe [ te | with k = 2, show that det(kO) = k"det() (3) (25) QUESTION 3 (a) Consider the vectors u = (2,—1,1),v = (1,1,2) Then (1) compute uv (2) (u) determmne the angle @ between u and v (3) (TURN OVER]