Math 19620, Spring 2024

Problem Set 1A (35 points)

Due Tuesday, March 26, at 11:59pm
(1) (6 points) Please read the Course Handout. Then answer the following questions.
(a) When is the final exam? Until what date should you plan to remain on campus?
(b) How many midterms are there and when are they?
(c) If you submit homework at 12:10am, will there be an automatic deduction? What about if you
submit at 12:30am?
(d) Read the Academic Integrity policy. Working with others on problems is highly encouraged.
When you work on homework problems with peers what do you need to do?
(e) What is my electronic device policy and why?
(f) Where is my office?
(2) (4 points) Come to an Office Hour to introduce yourself, by the end of second week (3/29). Please
bring a question - it can be mathematical, logistical, or anything else you like.
(3) Write down the augmented matrix for each of the following systems of linear equations and use the
process of Gaussian elimination (as done in class) to solve the systems. (See the bottom of page 4
of the Day 1 Handout - or page 5 of the Day 1 Class Notes - for the allowable row operations.) If a
system has infinitely many solutions, then describe it as a set using a parameter(s) . If a system has
no solution, then explain how you know.
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(a) (3 points)
x ´ 3y “ 1 &2x ` 2y ` 2z “ 0
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4x ` 2y “ ´3 (d) (3 points) ´2x ` 5y ` 2z “ 1
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8x ` y ` 4z “ 2
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’ x ` y ` 2z “ 8 $
&x ´ y ` 2z ´ w “ ´1
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(b) (3 points) ´x ´ 2y ` 3z “ 1
’ (e) (3 points) 2x ` y ´ 2z ´ 2w “ ´2
3x ´ 7y ` 4z “ 10
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´3x ` 3w “ 9
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&x ` y ´ 2z “ ´3
’ &2x ´ 3y “ ´2
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(c) (3 points) 2x ´ y ` 3z “ 7 (f) (3 points) 2x ` 2y “ 1
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x ´ 2y ` 5z “ 10 3x ` 2y “ 1
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(4) (3 points) Bretscher Section 1.1, Exercise 24 (I have copied the question below for anyone who doesn’t
have the book.)
The Russian-born US economist and Nobel laureate Wassily Leontief (1906-1999) was interested in
the following question: What output should each of the industries in an economy produce to satisfy
the total demand for all products? Here, we consider a very simple example of input-output analysis,
an economy with two industries, A and B. Assume that the consumer demand for their products
is, respectively, 1,000 and 780, in millions of dollars per year. What outputs a and b, in millions
of dollars, should the two industries generate to satisfy the demand? We have to take into account
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the interindustry demand. Let us say that industry A produces electricity. Of course, producing
almost any product will require electrical power. Suppose that industry B needs 10 cents worth of
electricity for each $1 of output B produces and that industry A needs 20 cents worth of B’s products
for each $1 of output A produces. Find the outputs a and b needed to satisfy both consumer and
interindustry demand.
(5) (4 points) A company earns before-tax profits of $2,000,000. It has committed to donating 10% of
its after-tax profits to a not-for-profit chosen by its employees. It must pay state taxes of 7% (after
the donation) and a federal tax of 21% (after the state taxes and the donation are paid). Let S, F, D
represent the amounts of state taxes, federal taxes and charitable donation, respectively. Write down
equations that describe each of the following statements:
i) State tax is 7% of profits after the donation.
ii) Federal tax is 21% of profits after that state taxes and donation.
iii) The company donates 10% of its after-tax profits.
Write down the system of equations and the augmented matrix for the system.