COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Fall Semester 2020

QUIZ 1
Course Code: MATH-204
Course Title:
LINEAR ALGEBRA
Examiner(s):
Dr. Zanin Kavazović

Student Name

Student ID
Section

Date of Exam: 16 September 2020 Time and Duration: 09:30 – 10:45 ( 75 minutes )

Weighting: 13.33 % No. pages 3 No. questions 4 Total marks 36

Instructions:
Handouts/Appendices attached?
Answer ALL of the questions.
Yes No X Provide all details and steps of your solution process.
Open book?
An answer (even correct) without sufficient supporting
Yes No details in the solution process will receive zero credit.
X
Open notes? Only use a basic scientific calculator.

Yes No If two or more answers are presented for a question,

X
only the most incorrect answer will be counted.
Calculator
Yes X No

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Question 1 [ 8 points ] Write clearly. Provide all details of the process.
Use the elementary row operations and the Gauss-Jordan method to solve the linear system

 x1  3x2  x4  2
2 x  2 x  x  2 x  2
 1 2 3 4

 2 x1  4 x3  x4  2
 x3  2 x4  4

Question 2 [ 8 points ] Write clearly. Provide all details of the process.

Find the inverse of the following matrix using the elementary row operations and the Gauss-
Jordan method

1 1 3 
A   3 6 0  .
 2 1 3

Question 3 [ 10 points ] Write clearly. Provide all details of the process.

Compute the determinant of the following matrix

 1 1 1 3
 1 3 0 1
A 
 2 0 4 1 .
 
0 0 1 2

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Question 4 [ 10 points ]
Answer the following questions.
If more than one answer is provided for a given question, only the wrong answer will be taken
into account.

1 4 1 4 3
a) [ 2 points ] -1
Find the inverse of (B A) where A   2 2  and B  3 2 .
   

b) [ 2 points ] If A is a 4 x 4 matrix and 2AAT = 3A, find all possible values of det(A).

4 1
Find the matrix A knowing that  2x 2 
1
c) [ 2 points ] 2 A  3 I  2 0
 

d) [ 4 points ] A and B are two 3 x 3 matrices with det  A   3 and det  B   2 .

Find : det  3B 4   det  5A  

det  4B 1   det  2A 3B 1AT  

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