KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

at Western University

SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS

Mathematics 1600B (Linear Algebra I)
Assignment 3
Due date: Monday, February 8, 10:00AM (Drop Box)

Total: 50 marks

1. (3 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer (no
guessing, please)!
If ACBDE = AE (all matrices are n n) and matrices A and E are invertible, then D
is also invertible. If true, …nd D 1 .
2. (3 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer (no
guessing, please)!
A product of two elementary matrices is always an elementary matrix.

3. (3 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer (no
guessing, please)!
Let A and zero matrix O be square (n n) matrices. If equation A~x = O has only a trivial
solution, then equation Ak ~x = ~b, where k is any integer number, has exactly one solution for
every vector ~b in Rn .
2 3
1 0 1 0
6 1 1 1 0 7
4. (5 marks). Consider the matrix A = 6 7 1
4 1 0 1 1 5. Write A as a product of
0 0 2 0
elementary matrices.
5. (3 marks). Let p (x)2= 2 31 x2 + 3 1 3
9
x + 5x6 + 27x9 : Evaluate the corresponding matrix
0 0 0 0
6 3 0 0 0 7
polynomial p (A) for A = 6 4 2 3 0 0 5.
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1 2 3 0 2 3
1 1 1
6. (5 marks). Find the inverse of A = 4 2 3 2 5. Show all steps. Check your result.
3 8 2

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 7. (4 marks). Find ALL values of ~b = (b1 ; b2 ; b3 ; b4 ) that make the following linear system
be consistent

x1 x2 + 3x3 + 2x4 = b1
2x1 + x2 + 5x3 + x4 = b2
3x1 + 2x2 + 2x3 x4 = b3
4x1 3x2 + x3 + 3x4 = b4

8. (2 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer (no
guessing, please)!
a b b d
There is a 2 2 matrix A such that A = for all values of a, b, c, and d.
c d a c
9. (3 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer (no
guessing, please)!
If a square matrix A satis…es the equation A7 + 3A5 5A3 + I = O, then A3 must be
invertible. If true, …nd the inverse of A3 .
10. (2 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer
(no guessing, please)!
Every orthogonal set of non-zero vectors in Rn is linearly independent.
11. (2 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer
(no guessing, please)!
The fewest number of hyperplanes in R7 that can intersect in a plane is …ve.

12. (4 marks). Find ALL values of a, b, c, and d for which matrix A is symmetric.
2 3
2a 4b 13c + 27 a + 2b c 3
A=4 2 0 c 2d 5
3a + 6b 2c + 2d 2a + 4b 7 3b 5c + 7d 17
13. (2 marks). Find ALL 2 2 diagonal matrices A with the property that
A2 + A 56I = O:
14. (2 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer
(no guessing, please)!
A nilpotent matrix does not have an inverse.
15. (2 marks) Determine whether the set of all vectors (x; y; z) for which x + y + z = 1
is a subspace of R3 .
16. (2 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer
(no guessing, please)!
If span (S1 ) = span (S2 ), then S1 = S2 .

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 17. (3 marks) Determine whether the vectors (3; 2; 3; 0), (0; 1; 4; 3), and ( 1; 0; 2; 1) lie
in a plane.
Bonus questions.

B1. (3 marks). Indicate whether the statement is true or false. Justify your answer
(no guessing, please)!
Matrix equation AX XA = I, where A; X; and I are n n matrices, does not have any
solution.

B2. (3 marks). Find the value of c in the following n n inverse matrix:

2 3 2 3
n 1 ::: 1 c 1 ::: 1
6 1 n ::: 7
1 7 6
1 6 1 c ::: 1 7
6 1 7
if A = 6 .. .. .. .. 7 ; then A = 6 . . .. .. 7:
4 . . . . 5 n + 1 4 .. .. . . 5
1 1 ::: n 1 1 ::: c

B3. (6 marks). (a) Find a homogeneous linear system of two equations in four unknowns
whose solution space consists of all vectors in R4 that are orthogonal to the vectors ~u =
(1; 2; 3; 4) and ~v = (5; 6; 7; 8).
(b) Find a general solution of the system you obtained.
(c) Show (explicitly) that solution space is orthogonal to the vectors ~u and ~v .