Republic of the Philippines

APAYAO STATE COLLEGE

TEACHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
A.Y 2020-2021

Midterm Examination
in
M112: LINEAR ALGEBRA

NAME: ___________________________COURSE& YEAR LEVEL: ______________

Test NO. OF ITEMS SCORE

I 20
II 15
III. 15
50

TEST I. Multiple Choice.

Direction: Encircle the letter of your answer. Each item is equivalent to one (1) point. For items requiring
a solution is equivalent to three points.
Answer without solution- No points. Correct answer with wrong solution is wrong.

1-2. Which of the following is an equation included in this matrix?

a. 6y - 2x = 4 b. 6x - 2y = 4 c. x - 2y = 2 d. 2x - y = -2

3-5. What is the determinant of the minor matrix related to the number 2 in the top row?

a. 24 b. 16 c. -16 d. 20

6. Which of the following is the new row that results when you add rows 1 and 3?

a. 6, 8, 4, 22 b. 4, 5, 3, 12 c. 3, 4, 8, 12 d. 3, 5, 2, 13

7-9. What is the determinant?

a. 28 b. -32 c. 28 d. 56

10. If A and B are matrices, then which from the following is true?
A. AB ≠ BA B. (AT)t ≠ A C. A+B ≠ B+ A d. all are true
11.  Transpose of a rectangular matrix is a
A. scaler matrix B. square matrix C. diagonal matrix D. rectangular matrix
12..  Transpose of a column matrix is
A. row matrix B. zero matrix B. Column matrix D. diagonal matrix
13. Two matrices A and B are multiplied to get AB if
A
both are rectangular
.
B.both have same order

C.no of columns of A is equal to columns of B

D
no of rows of A is equal to no of columns of B
.
14. If |A| = 0, then A is
A.0 b. zero matrix c. singular matrix d. non-singular matrix

15.  If A is a symmetric matrix, then At =

A. 0 B. A C. |A| d. diagonal matrix
16.Two matrices A and B are multiplied to get BA if
A
no of rows of A is equal to no of columns of B
.
B.no of columns of A is equal to columns of B

C.both have same order

D
both are rectangular
.

17. [ a b c ] is a
A. zero matrix B. row matrix B. Column matrix d. diagonal matrix

18. Two matrices A and B are added if

A
no of rows of A is equal to no of columns of B
.
B.no of columns of A is equal to columns of B

C.both have same order

D
both are rectangular
.

19.  Matrices obtained by changing rows and columns is called

A.Symmetric b. transpose c. rectangular matrix d. None of the above

20.  Order of a matrix [ 2 5 7 ] is

A. 1 x 1 B. 1 x 3 C. 3 x 1 D. 3 x 3
Test II. Answer the following questions. Show your Solution

1-3) What are the coordinates of the y-intercept of the equation 5x - 3y = 2? ________________

4- 9). Solve each system of linear equations using substitution

4-5) 3x −¿y = 1 6-7) 3x −2y = 4 8-9) 2x −¿y = 4

x + 2y = -9 2x + y = -1 2x+y = -1

10-15) Solve each system of linear equations using elimination

10-12) 5x + y = 4 13-15) 2x −2y = 12

3x + 2y = 1 -2x + 3 y = 10

III. Compute the determinants of the following equation. (5 points each). Write your complete solution.
5 0 −1 1 5 −3 1 −6 5
|
1 −3 −2
0 5 3 | |
2. 3 −3
2 13
3
−7 | |
3. −1 −4
−2 −7 9
4
|

Prepared by: Checked by:

SHELA M. RAMOS NELLIEVIL P. BATAY-AN

Instructor BEED Chairperson