Spring Semester, Academic Year 2023–24

Assignment - 1

Course: MA1004 Section: S5

(1) Which of the following sets of vectors form a vector subspace?

(i) All invertible matrices (matrices having inverse) of order n × n.

(ii) All square matrices A such that AB = BA, where B is a fixed matrix.
(iii) All square matrices A such that A2 = A.
(iv) The set of all real polynomials of degree ≤ n and having 2 as a root.
(v) All vectors (x1 , x2 , x3 ) in R3 s.t. x21 + x22 + x23 ≤ 4.
Rb
(vi) All real-valued functions f defined on [a, b] such that a f (x) dx = 2.

(2) Determine whether the following sets of vectors form a vector space. If yes, then
find a basis and dimension of the vector space.

(i) The set of vectors (b1 , b2 , b3 ) with first component b1 = 0.

(ii) All linear combinations of two vectors (1, 1, 0) and (2, 0, 1).
(iii) The vectors (b1 , b2 , b3 ) which are scalar multiples of (1, 2, 3).
(iv) (x, y, z) ∈ R3 : x = y = z .


(v) (x, y, z) ∈ R3 : x = y or x = z .


(vi) All scalar matrices of order n × n.

(vii) All vectors (v1 , v2 , v3 ) in R3 with 4v1 + v3 = 0, 3v2 = v3 .
(viii) All vectors (v1 , v2 , v3 ) in R3 such that 5v1 − 3v2 + 2v3 = 0.
(ix) All 3 × 3 matrices with trace zero.
 
a
(x) All 3 × 1 matrices of the form  b , where a, b ∈ R.
a+b
(xi) Set of all 3 × 3 matrices with determinant equal to zero.
R1
(xii) The set of polynomials p(x) with degree at most n and −1 p(x) dx = 0.
(xiii) All real polynomials of degree ≤ 4 having only real roots.
(xiv) W = {(x1 , x2 , · · · , xn ) : x1 + x2 + · · · + xn = 0}.
(xv) W = {(x1 , x2 , · · · , xn ) : x1 = xn }.
(xvi) W = {(x1 , x2 , · · · , xn ) : xk = 0, if k is even}.
(xvii) W = {(x1 , x2 , · · · , xn ) : x0k s are all equal for k even}.
(xviii) All lower triangular matrices of order n × n.

(3) Express the vector (2, 1, 2) as a linear combination of (1, 1, 0), (1, 0, −1), (1, 1, 1).

(4) Write a basis for the row-space and column-space of each matrix and find the rank.
   
  1 2 3 4 2 3 1 0 4
2 0 −1 2 3 4 5  3 1 2 −1
5 1 0  , 1
7 11 15 19 ,
   
4 −1 3 −2 −2
0 1 3
9 15 21 27 5 4 3 −1 5

(5) Determine whether the following sets of vectors are linearly dependent, or indepen-
dent.
 1 − t + t3 , 3 − t + 4t2 + 3t3 , 2 − 2t − 2t2 + 4t3 , 1 + 3t2 .

(i)
     
2 1 1 1 0 0 0 2
(ii) , .
1 −2 1 0 1 1 0 −1
(iii) {(1, 0, 0, 0), (0, 1, 0, 0), (1, 2, 0, 1), (0, 0, 0, 1)}.