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 CHAPTER 3 & 4

MATRICES AND DETERMINANTS

VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (1 Mark)

x  3 4  5 4
1. If    , find x and y.
 y  4 x  y  3 9 

i 0 0 i
2. If A    and B   , find AB .
0 i  i 0 

3. Find the value of a23 + a32 in the matrix A = [aij]3 × 3

 2i – j if i  j
where aij   .
 i  2 j  3 if i  j

4. If B be a 4 × 5 type matrix, then what is the number of elements in the

third column.

 5 2 3 6 
5. If A    and B  0 1 find 3 A  2B.
 0 9   

 2 3  1 0 
6. If A    and B    find  A  B ´.
 7 5  2 6 

 2
7. If A = [1 0 4] and B  5 find AB .
6

 4 x  2
8. If A    is symmetric matrix, then find x.
2x  3 x  1
 0 2 3
 2 0 4 is skew symmetrix matrix.
9. For what value of x the matrix 
 3 4 x  5

2 3
10. If A     P  Q where P is symmetric and Q is skew-symmetric
1 0
matrix, then find the matrix Q.

1
 a  ib c  id
11. Find the value of c  id a  ib

2x  5 3
12. If  0, find x .
5x  2 9

k 2
13. For what value of k, the matrix  has no inverse.
3 4 

 sin 30 cos 30 

14. If A   , what is |A|.
  sin 60 cos 60 

2 3 5
15. Find the cofactor of a12 in 6 0 4 .
1 5 7

1 3 2
16. Find the minor of a23 in 4 5 6 .
3 5 2

1 2
17. Find the value of P, such that the matrix  is singular.
 4 P
 
18. Find the value of x such that the points (0, 2), (1, x) and (3, 1) are
collinear.

19. Area of a triangle with vertices (k, 0), (1, 1) and (0, 3) is 5 unit. Find the
value (s) of k.

20. If A is a square matrix of order 3 and |A| = – 2, find the value of |–3A|.

21. If A = 2B where A and B are square matrices of order 3 × 3 and |B| =

5, what is |A|?

22. What is the number of all possible matrices of order 2 × 3 with each entry
0, 1 or 2.

23. Find the area of the triangle with vertices (0, 0), (6, 0) and (4, 3).

2x 4 6 3
24. If  , find x .
1 x 2 1

2
 x  y y z z  x
 y  , write the value of det A.
25. If A   z x
 1 1 1 

a11 a12 
26. If A    such that |A| = – 15, find a11 C21 + a12C22 where Cij is
a21 a22 
cofactors of aij in A = [aij].

27. If A is a non-singular matrix of order 3 and |A| = – 3 find |adj A|.

5 3 
28. If A    find adj A 
6 8 
29. Given a square matrix A of order 3 × 3 such that |A| = 12 find the value
of |A adj A|.

30. If A is a square matrix of order 3 such that |adj A| = 8 find |A|.

31. Let A be a non-singular square matrix of order 3 × 3 find |adj A| if |A| =

10.

 2 1
32. If A    find A 1 1 .
3 4 

 3
33. If A   1 2 3 and B   4  find |AB|.
 0 

SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (4 MARKS)

x  y 2x  z   –1 5
34. Find x, y, z and w if     .
 2x  y 3x  w  0 13 

35. Construct a 3 × 3 matrix A = [a ij] whose elements are given by

1  i  j if i  j

aij =  i  2 j if i  j
 2

3
  1 2 3   3 0 1
36. Find A and B if 2A + 3B =   and A  2B   .
2 0 1  1 6 2

 1
 2 and B  2 1 4 , verify that (AB)´ = B´A´.
37. If A     
 3

 3 3 1
38. Express the matrix 2 2 1  P  Q where P is a symmetric and Q

 
 4 5 2
is a skew-symmetric matrix.

 cos  sin    cos n  sin n  

39. If A =   , then prove that An   
  sin  cos     sin n  cos n 
where n is a natural number.

 2 1  5 2  2 5
40. Let A    , B  , C  , find a matrix D such that
3 4 7 4 3 8
CD – AB = O.

 1 3 2  1
  
41. Find the value of x such that 1 x 1  2 5 1  2   0
15 3 2   x 

42. Prove that the product of the matrices

 cos 2  cos  sin   cos 2  cos  sin  

  and  2

2
cos  sin  sin   cos  sin  sin  

is the null matrix, when  and  differ by an odd multiple of .
2

 5 3 2 –1
43. If A    show that A – 12A – I = 0. Hence find A .
12 7 

4
  2 3 2
44. If A    find f(A) where f(x) = x – 5x – 2.
4 7

4 3
45. If A   , find x and y such that A2 – xA + yI = 0.
2 5 

 1 2 3  7 8 9 
46. Find the matrix X so that X    2 4 6 .
4 5 6   

2 3  1 2 –1 –1 –1
47. If A    and B    then show that (AB) = B A .
 1 4  1 3
48. Test the consistency of the following system of equations by matrix
method :

3x – y = 5; 6x – 2y = 3

49. Using elementary row transformations, find the inverse of the matrix
 6 3
A , if possible.
 2 1

3 1
50. By using elementary column transformation, find the inverse of A   .
 5 2
cos   sin  
51. If A   and A + A´ = I, then find the general value of .
 sin  cos  
Using properties of determinants, prove the following : Q 52 to Q 59.

a b c 2a 2a
3
52. 2b b c a 2b  a  b  c 
2c 2c c a b

x  2 x  3 x  2a
53. x  3 x  4 x  2b  0 if a, b, c are in A.P .
x  4 x  5 x  2c

sin  cos  sin    

54. sin  cos  sin      0
sin  cos  sin     

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 2 2 2 2
b c a a
2 2 2 2 2 2 2
55. b c a b  4a b c .
2 2 2 2
c c a b

b c c a a b a b c
56. q r r  p p q  2 p q r .
y  z z  x x  y x y z

2 2
a bc ac  c
2 2 2 2 2
57. a  ab b ac  4a b c .
2 2
ab b  bc c

x a b c
2
58. a x b c  x x  a  b  c  .
a b x c
59. Show that :

x y z
2 2 2
x y z   y  z   z  x   x  y   yz  zx  xy  .
yz zx xy
60. (i) If the points (a, b) (a´, b´) and (a – a´, b – b´) are collinear. Show
that ab´ = a´b.

2 5 4 3 
(ii) If A    and B   verity that AB  A B .
2 1 2 5 

0 1
0 1 2
61. Given A   and B   1 0  . Find the product AB and
2 2 0 
 1 1 
also find (AB)–1.
62. Solve the following equation for x.

a  x a  x a  x
a  x a  x a  x  0.
a  x a  x a  x

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  0  tan 2 
63. If A    and I is the identity matrix of order 2, show
 tan  0 
 2
that,

 cos   sin  
I  A  I  A 
 sin  cos  

64. Use matrix method to solve the following system of equations : 5x – 7y

= 2, 7x – 5y = 3.

LONG ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS (6 MARKS)

65. Obtain the inverse of the following matrix using elementary row operations

0 1 2
A   1 2 3 .
3 1 1

 1 1 2  2 0 1
0 2 3  9 2 3 to solve the system of equations
 
66. Use product 
3 2 4  6 1 2
x – y + 2z = 1, 2y – 3z = 1, 3x – 2y + 4z = 2.

67. Solve the following system of equations by matrix method, where x  0,

y  0, z  0

2 3 3 1 1 1 3 1 2
   10,    10,    13.
x y z x y z x y z

1 2 3 
68. where A   2
F ind A–1, 3 2  , hence solve the system of linear
 3 3 –4 
equations :

x + 2y – 3z = – 4

2x + 3y + 2z = 2

3x – 3y – 4z = 11

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69. The sum of three numbers is 2. If we subtract the second number from
twice the first number, we get 3. By adding double the second number
and the third number we get 0. Represent it algebraically and find the
numbers using matrix method.

70. Compute the inverse of the matrix.

 3 1 1
A   15 6 5  and verify that A–1 A = I3.
 5 2 5 

1 1 2 1 2 0
A   0 3  and B   0
 –1 ,
–1
71. If the matrix 2 3 then
 3 2 4   1 0 2 
compute (AB)–1.

72. Using matrix method, solve the following system of linear equations :

2x – y = 4, 2y + z = 5, z + 2x = 7.

0 1 1
A 2  3I
73. Find A 1
if A   1 0 1 . Also show that A 1  .
2
 1 1 0

 1 2 2 
 0  by using elementary
74. Find the inverse of the matrix A   1 3
 0 2 1
column transformations.

 2 3 2
75. Let A    and f(x) = x – 4x + 7. Show that f (A) = 0. Use this result
 1 2 
to find A5.

cos   sin  0
76. If A   sin  cos  0 , verify that A . (adj A) = (adj A) . A = |A| I3.

 0 0 1

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  2 1 1
77. For the matrix A   1 2 1 , verify that A3 – 6A2 + 9A – 4I = 0, hence
 1 1 2
find A–1.

78. Find the matrix X for which

3 2   1 1 2 1
7 5  . X .  
   2 1 0 4 

79. By using properties of determinants prove the following :

1 a2  b 2 2ab 2b
3
2ab 1 a2  b 2 2a  1  a 2  b 2  .
2b 2a 1 a2  b 2

y  z 2 xy zx
2 3
80. xy x  z  yz  2xyz  x  y  z  .
xz yz x  y 2
a ab a b c
81. 2a 3a  2b 4a  3b  2c  a 3 .
3a 6a  3b 10a  6b  3c

x x 2 1 x 3
82. If x, y, z are different and y y 2 1  y 3  0. Show that xyz = – 1.
z z2 1 z 3

83. If x, y, z are the 10th, 13th and 15th terms of a G.P. find the value of

log x 10 1
  log y 13 1 .
log z 15 1

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84. Using the properties of determinants, show that :
1 a 1 1
 1 1 1
1 1 b 1  abc  1      abc  bc  ca  ab
 a b c
1 1 1 c
85. Using properties of determinants prove that

bc b 2  bc c 2  bc
3
a 2  ac ac c 2  ac  ab  bc  ca 
a 2  ab b 2  ab ab

3 2 1 
86. If A  4 1 2  , find A–1 and hence solve the system of equations
7 3 3 
3x + 4y + 7z = 14, 2x – y + 3z = 4, x + 2y – 3z = 0.

ANSWERS

0 1
1. x = 2, y = 7 2. 1 0 
 

3. 11. 4. 4

9 6  3 5
5. 0 29  . 6.  3 1 .
   

7. AB = [26]. 8. x = 5

 0 1
9. x = – 5 10.  1 .
 0 

11. a2 + b2 + c2 + d2. 12. x = – 13

3
13. k 14. |A| = 1.
2

15. 46 16. –4

10
 5
17. P = – 8 18. x  .
3

10
19. k  . 20. 54.
3

21. 40. 22. 729

23. 9 sq. units 24. x = ± 2

25. 0 26. 0

 8 3
27. 9 28.  6 5  .
 

29. 1728 30. |A| = 9

31. 100 32. 11

33. |AB| = – 11 34. x = 1, y = 2, z = 3, w = 4

3 3 2 5 2
4 5 2  .
35. 
5 6 7 

11 9 9  5 2 1
7 7 7   7 
7 7
36. A  , B   
 1 18 4  4 
12 5
 
 7 7 7  7 7 7 
 191 110 
40. D   . 41. x = – 2 or – 14
 77 44 

 7 3
43. A 1   . 44. f(A) = 0
 12 5 

 1 2
45. x = 9, y = 14 46. x  .
2 0

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48. Inconsistent 49. Inverse does not exist.

 2 1 
50. A –1   . 51.   2n   , n z
 5 3 3

 1 2 –1 1 2 2 
61. AB    ,  AB    .
 2 2 6 2 1

11 1
62 0, 3a 64. x  , y  .
24 24

 1 1 1
  
–1  2 2 2
65. A   4 3 1 . 66. x = 0, y = 5, z = 3
 
 5 
3 1
 2 2 2 

 6 17 13 
1 1 1 1 
67. x  , y  , z 68. A 1
 14 5 8 
2 3 5 67 
 15 9 1

 2 0 1
69. x = 1, y = – 2, z = 2 70. A 1
 5 1 0
0 1 3

16 12 1
71. AB 1  1  21 11 7  . 72. x = 3, y = 2, z = 1.
19  
10 2 3 

 1 1 1 3 2 6
1
73. A 1
  1 1 1 . 74. A 1
  1 1 2
2
 1 1 1  2 2 5

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  118 93  3 1 1
A5   1
1  .
1
75. . 77. A  1 3
 31 118  4 
 1 1 3 

 16 3 
78. X  . 83. 0
 24 5 

86. x = 1, y = 1, z = 1.

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