NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS

SMA1102: LINEAR ALGEBRA

TUTORIAL (ALL SECTIONS)

1. Use Gauss-Jordan elimination to solve the following system of linear equations

(a)

3x + 8y + 5z = 27,
2x + 4y + 6z = 22,
−x + y + 2z = 2.

(b)

x + 2y − 3z = −2,
3x − y − 2z = 1,
2x + 3y − 5z = −3.

(c)

x+y+z = 1,
3x − y − z = 4,
x + 5y + 5z = −1.

2. Consider the following system of equations;

x+y+z = a,
3x − y − z = 4,
x + 5y + bz = −1.

(a) find the values of a and b for which the system has a unique solution.
(b) and find the point(s) (a, b) such that the system has at least two solutions.
3. Use elementary matrices to compute the inverse of matrix,
 
1 3 1
M = 3 8 3 .
2 −3 1

4. Determine which of the following lists of vectors are linearly independent or not;
(a) {(6, 5, −1)},
(b) {(0, 1), (0, 0), (1, 0)},
(c) {(5, 3), (8, −11), (10, 5), (18, 35)},
(d) {(1, 1, 0), (0, 1, 1), (1, 1, 1)},
(e) {(0, 1, 3), (1, 2, 1), (1, −2, 0)}.

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 5. Find the equation of the plane passing through the points A1 (6, 2, −2), A2 (4, −4, 8), A3 (0, −4, 0).
6. Express v = (−4, 7, 1) in R3 as a linear combination of the vectors v1 = (0, 1, 1), v2 = (1, 2, −2),
v1 = (3, 1, 0).
7. Calculate the scalar triple product u · (v × w) of the vectors

v = (4, 4, 4), w = (5, 1, 6), and u = (2, 1.5, 1).

8. Show that a line through the origin of R3 is a subspace of R3 .

9. Let U = {x ∈ R4 |Ax = 0}, where
 
1 0 2 3
A= 0 0 0 −1  .
5 0 10 0
Give four vectors in U.
10. Find a basis for, and write down the dimension of, the subspace;
2 1 7 1
W = span{(1, , 0, −5), (−3, −2, 0, 1, 15), (3, 0, −1, ), ( , , −1, −2)}.
3 2 2 3