Mid-term exam for K64K2

Time: 60 minutes
Three exercises. Total points: 20 points.
March 2015
Textbooks, notes are allowed.
Exercise books with solutions are not allowed.

Exercise 1 (2+2=4pts). Let z, w be two complex numbers. Prove that

|z + w| ≤ |z| + |w|.

Find necessary and sufficient conditions in order that the equality occurs.

Exercise 2 (3+3+3+3=12pts). Let

U = span{(1, 3, 5, 7), (−1, 5, 14, 20), (5, 7, 6, 8)}

and
V = span{(13, −1, 18, 16), (9, 3, 4, 2), (4, −4, 14, 14)}
be vector subspaces of R4 .

(a) Find the dimension of U, V, U + V and U ∩ V.

(b) Find a basis of U and a basis of V.

(c) Find a basis of U ∩ V.

(d) Find four linear complements W1 , W2 , W3 , W4 of U and of V.

Exercise 3 (4pts). Let A, B be two square matrices with real entries. Prove that if B is
invertible then rank(AB) = rank(BA) = rank(A).