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Tute Sheet 08 UMA004
Tute Sheet 08 UMA004
School of Mathematics
Mathematics – II (UMA004): Tutorial Sheet 08
1. Using the elementary row operations to reduce the following matrices into row reduced echelon form
and hence find their rank.
1 2 1
1 2 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 4
(a) 2 3 4 5
(b) 1 1 1 (c)
1 3 1
1 4 13 5 3 1 2
8 13 14
2. Find all the solutions of the following homogenous system AX 0 using row reduced echelon form of
matrix, where A is given by
3 1 2 1 2 3 4 3 11 5
(a) 1 2 3
(b) 1 1 1 1 (c) 4 1 10
1 5 4 1 2 6 12 4 9 6
3. Test the consistency of given system of the linear equations using row reduced echelon form and if
consistent find all the solutions.
x
2 3 1 x1 2 2 0 3 x 0 1 1 1 1 4
y
(a) 1 1 2 x 2 3 (b) 0 2 3 y 0 (c) 1 1 1 1 2
z
2 1 3 x3 2 1 1 1 z 1 1 1 1 1 0
w
5 3 14 4
1 1 1 x 3 0 1 2 x 1 1 4 7 x 8
(d) 3 9 2 y 4 (e) y (f) 3 8 2 y 6
1 1 2 0
5 3 4 z 6 z 7 8 26 z 3
2 1 6 2
2 3 4
4. Using the elementary row operations, find the inverse of the matrix 4 3 1
1 2 4
5. For what value of following system of linear equations x y 1, x y , (1 ) x 2 y 3 is
consistent. Hence, solve the system for this value of .
6. Discuss the values of for which the system of linear equations: x y 4 z 6, x 2 y 2 z 6 ,
x y z 6 is consistent.
7. Show that the three equations 2 x y z a, x 2 y z b, x y 2 z c has no solution unless
a b c 0 , in which case they have infinitely many solutions. Find these solutions when
a 1, b 1, c 2 .
Answers
2 7 8
(1). 2, 3, 2. (2). (a) ( , , ) ,(b) ( , , , ) , (c) (0, 0, 0) where is a arbitrary constant.
3 3 3
(3) (a) (1, 2, 2) , (b) (3/2, 3/2, 1), (c) (2 ,1, ,1) , (d) (1,1,1), (e) (-1, -1/2, ¾), (f) Inconsistent (No Solution).
10 4 9
1
(4) 15 4 14 . (5). 2, x 1, y 0 . (6). If 7 / 10 consistent else inconsistent.
5
5 1 6
(7). x k 1, y k 1, z k , k being an arbitrary scalar.