Dept.

E&E, NITK Surathkal

Tutorial 2: Vector and Matrix Equations

Instructions
Submit a handwritten scanned .pdf file named yyEE###_FirstName_Tut#.pdf
via Moodle before the deadline (Late submissions will invite penality). This tu-
torial will account for 2 % of your total grade.(i) write registration number on
every page of the sheet before scanning. (ii) Add the doc with the matlab plots
(label axes!!)/codes and create a PDF (iii) Merge both documents (iv) Submit
as one single PDF document.
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7 −5
1. List five vectors in the span{v̄1 , v̄2 } with v̄1 =  1  , v̄2 =  3 .
−6 0
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1 −2 4
2. Let ā1 =  4  , ā2 =  −3  &b̄ =  1 . For what value of h is b̄ in
−2 7 h
the plane spanned by ā1 &ā2 ?
3. construct a 3 × 3matrix A with non-zero entries and a vector b̄ ∈ R3 such
that b̄ is not in the set spanned by the columns of A. Briefly explain how
you obtain this result.
4. Let A be a 3 × 2matrix. Explain why the equation Ax̄ = b̄can not be
consistent for any b̄ ∈ R3 . Generalize your argument to the case of an
arbitrary A with more rows than columns.
       
1 1 −1 5
5. Consider the vectors v̄1 = , v̄2 = , v̄3 = & b̄ = ∈
2 1 1 6
R2 . Visualize (draw them on paper) them on a 2 D plane. Does the vector
equation x1 v̄1 + x2 v̄2 + x3 v̄3 = b̄ have a unique solution? Use figures (draw
them on paper) to explain your answer.

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6. [M] Using Matlab, determine if the columns of the following matrices span
R4 .
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7 2 −5 8 12 −7 11 −9 5 8 11 −6 −7 13
 −5 −3 4 −9   −9 4 −8 7 −3   −7 −8 5 6 −9 
(i)   (ii) 
 −6 11 −7 3 −9  (iii)  11
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 6 10 −2 7  7 −7 −9 −6 
−7 9 2 5 4 −6 10 −5 12 −3 4 1 8 7

Check for the matrices (ii) and (iii), if any of the column can be deleted
and whether the remaining column span R4 . Can we delete more than one
column for these two matrices and still span R4 , Justify your answer?

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