Answers to exercises of Chapter 1.

Matrix - Determinant
Exercise 1.

 4 0 2   3 5 3 
2A    ; B  2A   ;
 8 6 4   7 2 7 

 17 5 
 20 10 1
3A  2B    ; 2A  3B   15
T T
6
14 17 0   
 5 13

Exercise 2.

0 4  2
16 8  2  8 12 
a) A  B =   ; BA =  
 0 10 4 4 14 

5  4 4  2
b) A  B = 2 4 1 0  ; B  A does not exist.
1  3  1 1 

Exercise 3.

cos nx  sin nx 
a) By induction, we have 
 sin nx cos nx 

4 1 3 0 1 1 4 1 4 n 4 n  3n 
n

b)      0
    
0 3 0 3 0 0
0 3
   3 n 

a 100 100a 99 50.99a 98 

100
 a 1 0   a 0 0  0 1 0  a 1 0 
 
c) 0 a 1   0 a 0   0 0 1  0 a 1   0 a 100 100a 99 
0 0 a  0 0 a  0 0 0 0 0 a   0 0 a 100 


Exercise 4.

  
a) B =  3 3 ; ;   R
    
2 2 

 
b) B =  ; ;   R
   

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Exercise 5.

a) -2010; b) – 4 c) -33 d) 0

e) 62 f) 93 g) -117 h) -4

Exercise 6.

a) 0 b) 40 c) 0 d) 189

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Exercise 7. x  3 and x 
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Exercise 8.

 8 6 2
  22 22

22 
 2 1   
1  d  b
c) 
3 5 9 
a)  3 1 b) 
 2   ad  bc  c a   22 22 22 
2
 7 3 1
  
 22 22 22 

 1 3 
1 0 
2 2 
 1 
0 1 0 
d) Does not exist e) Does not exist f)  2 
0 0 
1

3
 2 2
0 0 0  1 

Exercise 9.

 1 0   11 6
a)  b)  c) Does not exist
1 2 
 14 7

Exercise 10. r(A) = 3; r(B) = 4; r(C) = 2; r(D) = 3; r(E) = 3; r(F) = 3

Exercise 11. Instructions: Transformation brings matrix A to Echelon form. Answer

m  3.

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