Practice questions

1. For what values of x, the matrix

 
3−x 2 2
 2 4−x 1  (1)
−2 −4 −1 − x

is singular?

2. Matrix A has x rows and x + 5 columns. Matrix B has y rows and 11 − y columns.
Both AB and BA exist. Find x and y.
 
1 −2 3
3. If A =  2 3 −1 , and I is the unit matrix of order 3, evaluate A2 −3A+9I.
−3 1 2
 
3 2 2
4. If A =  1 3 1 , compute adj(A) and A−1 . Also find B such that AB =
5 3 4
 
3 4 2
 1 6 1 .
5 6 4
5. Determine the rank of the following matrices:
 
1 2 3
(a)  1 4 2 
2 6 5
 
0 1 −3 −1
 1 0 1 1 
(b)  3 1

0 2 
1 1 −2 0
 
2 3 −1 −1
 1 −1 −2 −4 
(c)  
 3 1 3 −2 
6 3 0 −7
6. Are the following vectors linearly dependent? If so, find the relation between them:

(a) (2, 1, 1), (2, 0, −1), (4, 2, 1)

(b) (1, 1, 1, 3), (1, 2, 3, 4), (2, 3, 4, 9)
(c) x1 = (1, 2, 3), x2 = (2, −1, 3), x3 = (0, 1, 2), x4 = (−3, 7, 2)
(d) (1, 2, 3, 4), (2, 0, 1, −2), (3, 2, 4, 2)
√
(e) (2, 2, 1), (2, ι, −1), (1 + ι, −ι, 1), where ι = −1

7. For what value of k, set of vector is linearly independent

(a) v1 = (1, 1, 0, 1), v2 = (1, 1, 1, 1), v3 = (−1, 1, 1, 1), v4 = (1, 0, k, 1)

(b) v1 = (k, 1 − k, k), v2 = (0, 3k − 1, 2), v3 = (−k, 1, 0)
(c) v1 = (k, 1, 1), v2 = (0, 1, 1), v3 = (k, 0, k)

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1. The vectors u = (6, 2, 3, 4), v = (0, 5, −3, 1), w = (0, 0, 7, −2) are

(a) dependent
(b) independent
(c) Data is insufficient
(d) None of these

2. Let v1 , v2 , v3 be three non zero vectors in Rn which are linearly dependent, then

(a) v3 must be a linear combination of v1 and v2 .

(b) v2 must be a linear combination of v1 and v3 .
(c) v1 must be a linear combination of v2 and v3 .
(d) None of the above
 
1 k 5
3. For what value of k, the rank(A) 6= 3, where A =  1 −3 2 .
2 −1 1

(a) k = 3/26
(b) k = 1/9
(c) k = 1/8
(d) k = 3/22