Intermediate Part One Chapter#3

Note: Multiple choice Questions

1. Who developed the theory of matrices and used them in the linear transformation
(a) Arthur cayley (b) James sylvester (c) G.W.Leibniz (d) Seki kowa
2. The concept of determinants was given by
(a) Americans & Chinese (b) Chinese & Russians
(c) Chinese & Japanese (d) Japanese & English
3. A matrix A of order 1 × n is called
(a) Column matrix (b) Row matrix (c) Diagonal matrix (d) Identity matrix

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a1 j
a2 j
4. The order of the matrix a3 j
:
am j

(a) Symmetric (b) j×m (c) m ×m (d) m ×j

5. The transpose of a column matrix is a
(a) Row matrix (b) Column matrix (c) Null matrix (d) Identity matrix
6. The transpose of rectangular matrix is a
(a) Square matrix (b) Rectangular matrix
(c) Identity matrix (d) Null matrix
7. Which one is not true in general?
(a) AB=BA (b) A(BC) = (AB)C (c) A(B+C)=AB+AC(d) All of these

8. The matrix A =
[ 13 26] is a

(a) Singular (b) non-singular (c) symmetric (d) skew- symmetric

9. The cofactor of an element in 2nd row and 3rd column is denoted by
(a) A23 (b) M23 (c) −¿A23 (d) None of these
10. The minor of an element a ij is denoted by

(a) A23 (b) M23 (c) M ij (d) A32

11. If A and B are multiplicative inverses of each other then AB = BA =?

(a) 0 (b) I (c) A (d) B
12. If a square matrix has two identical rows or columns then its determinant is
(a) Non-zero (b) Greater than zero(c) zero (d) Less than zero
13. If all the elements of a row or column of a square matrix are zero, then its determinant is
(a) 0 (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) 3
14. Commutative law of matrices w.r.t addition is
(a) A+B≠ B+A (b) A+B=A (c) A+B=B+A (d) All of these
15. Two matrices A and B are called multiplicative inverse of each other if
(a) An exists (b) AB=BA (c) AB ≠ BA (d) AB=BA=I

Short question

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r cos ∅ 0 −sin ∅ cos ∅ 0 sin ∅
1) Show that 0 r 0 0 1 0 =r I 3
r sin ∅ 0 cos ∅ −r sin ∅ 0 r cos ∅
2) If A and B are square matrices of same order the prove why in general ( A+ B )2 ≠ A 2+ 2 AB+B 2

3) Solve matrix equation for A. A [ 34 12]−[−13 21]=[−12 05]

4) Define cofactor of an element
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5 −2 5
5) A , A
Find 12 22if A= 3 −1 4
−2 1 −2