SINGLE ANSWER TYPE:

1. A, B, C are angles of a triangle such that  tan A tan B  9 . Let x  tan A, y  tan B, z  tan C and
x y z

P is the 3  3 matrix y z x  . Then det (P) is equal to

 z x y 

A) 33 B) 1 C) 0 D) 33

2. ‘  ’ is the smallest value of ‘K’, for which both roots of the equation x 2  8 Kx  16 K 2  K  1  0  
    1
are real, distinct and have values at least 4. Let A    , then AAT is
  1  

1 0  1 0  13 12 
A) I B) 5   C)   D)  
 0 1  0 1 12 13

3. Let  ,  be the roots of the equation ax 2  bx  c  0 and

3 1  s1 1  s2 1 1 1
If S n    
n n
for n  1 &   1  s1 1  s2 1  s3 and 1  1   then
1  s2 1  s3 1  s4 1 2 2

A)   13 B)   12 C)   1 D)   14

4. If A is 4  3 matrix, B is 3  4 matrix then AB 

a) 1 b) 0 c) 2 d) none
n n 2
5. If A2  A1 , B  A2 and C  A2 then B  C 

a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) 3
6
1 
6. Let    be the solutions of the equation     n 
 4 2 for 0   
2
n 1
sin     n  1  sin    
 4  4 

sin  sin  
and A is the 2  2 matrix  , then det A is equal to
 sin  sin  

3 2 3
A) 0 B) C) D)
2 3 2

7. If and

then

A) B) C) D)
8. If are polynomials of degree 4 and

be an identity in x,

then the value of is

A) B) C) D)

9. If and then the value of

A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4

10. The existence of the unique solution of the system of equations

x  y  x   , 5 x  y   z  10, 2 x  3 y  z  6 depends on

a)  only b)  only c)  and  both d) neither  nor 

11. If A and B are square matrices such that B   A1 BA , then

b)  A  B   A2  B 2  AB
0
a) AB  BA  0

c)  A  B   A2  2 AB  B 2 d)  A  B   A  B
2 2

2, when i  j  det  adj  adj A   

12. If A   aij  such that aij   then   is
44
0, wheni  j  7 
(where {.} denotes fractional part function)

1 2 3
a) b) c) d) none of these
7 7 7

1 1
13. If both A  I and A  I are orthogonal matrices, them
2 2
a) A is orthogonal b) A is skew symmetric matrix of even order

3
c) A 
2
I d) none of these
4
14. The number of solutions of the set of equations

2x 2 y 2 z 2  x 2 2y 2 z 2  x 2 y 2 2z 2
 2  2  0,    0 ,  2  2  0 is  a, b, c  R  0
a2 b c a2 b2 c2 a2 b c
 A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) INFINITE

5 2004   2005 2004


15. If A    , then the value of det  A  5 A  equal to
1 401   
(A) 5 (B) -1 (C) 1 (D) -2004

16. A and B are square matrices such that A  B  AB . Then

(A) AB = BA (B) AB – BA = I (C) AB + BA = 0 (D) AB + BA = I

17. Statement –I : If the matrices A,B , (A+B) are non-singular square matrixes of same order then

 A  A  B B1 1
 B1  A 1

Statement –II : A, B are square matrices of same order and non-singular matrices then  A  B 
1
 B1  A 1

MULTIPLE LE ANSWER TYPE:

18. Let A,B,C and D be real matrices such that AT  BCD , BT  CDA , C T  DAB , D T  ABC and
S  ABCD then

a) S 2  S b) S 4  S c) S 3  S d) S T  S

19. If A is a matrix of size such that then

A) A is non singular B) A is symmetric C) D)

20. If A and B are two invertible matrices of the same order, then is equal to

A) B) C) D)

21. If then

A) are in A.P. B) are in A.P.

C) are in G.P. D) are in H.P.

22. If then

A) B)
 C)The max value of D)The max value of

If A is symmetric and B is skew symmetric and A+B is non singular and also C   A  B   A  B
1
23.
then

A) C T  A  B  C  A  B b) C T  A  B  C  A  B

C) C T AC  A d) C T AC  0

24. Let A and B be two square idempotent matrices such that AB  BA is a null matrix, then the value
of det(A-B) can be
A) -1 b) 0 c) 1 d) none
25. Let A be a non singular matrix of order 3x3 whose entries are complex numbers which satisfy
2 A2  4 A  A3 , then which of the following is / are true

A) det  A   8
  A 
b) det  adj     1
  2 
c) adjA  A2 d) tr  A  2I    24
3

26. If the sum of two idempotent matrices A and B is an idempotent matrix,then

b)  A  B   A  B
3
a) AB=-BA c) AB=0 d) AB  BA  I

27. D is a square matrix of order 3. Then

(A) D is a scalar matrix, if it commutes (with respect to multiplication) with every square matrix of the same
order.

(B) If D is a diagonal matrix with non-zero principal diagonal elements, then D 1 exists.

(C) There is no square matrix P of order 3 such that DP-PD is equal to unit matrix.

(D) D  D T is Symmetric matrix.

28. Let A be a non-singular, symmetric matrix of order three such that A  adj A  AT then 
a) A1 
A
16
b) A1  16 A  
c) adj A1  64 A d) adj  A1  
A
1024

a b c
29. Suppose that a,b,c are real numbers such that a+b+c=1. If the matrix A  b c a be an
c a b
orthogonal matrix, then
A) A is an involutory matrix B) A is negative

C) a3  b3  c3  3abc  1 D) atleast one of a,b,c is negative

PARAGRAPH :

1 0 0
 
Let A   1 0 1  satieties A n  A n  2  A 2  I, for n  3 and trace of a square matrix X is equal to the
 0 1 0
 
sum of elements in the principal diagonal. Further consider a matrix U 33 with its column as U1 , U 2 , U 3
1 0  0
     
such that A U1   25  ; A U 2   1  ; A U 3   0  then
50 50 50

 25  0 1
     

30. Value of A 50 (Determinant of A 50 ) equals to ………..

A) 0 B) 1 C) 350 D) 250

31. Trace of A 50 equals to ….

A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) 3

32. Value of U equals to ……….

A) 0 B) 1 C) 2 D) -1

INTEGER TYPE:
K 
If A  I and AB  BA then B  I where    ……….where [.] denotes G.I.F
6 2 k
33.
 10 

 a b  
34. Let T5   A    : a, b, c  0,1, 2,3, 4 be the set of 2  2 matrices then the number of ‘A’ in T5
 c a  
such that ‘A’ is either symmetric or skew symmetric or both and det(A) is divisible by ‘5’ is………..

35. Given then the value of if the given system has no

solution is ---

36. If then the value of is ………

37. If A,B,C are the angles of an acute angled triangle ABC and

, then the least integral value of is

equal to ……
38. Let A   aij  be a matrix such that AAT  4 I and 2aij + cij = 0 where cij is the co-factor of
33

aij , " i and j and I is the unit matrix of order 3.

a11 + 4 a12 a13 a11 +1 a12 a13

If a21 a22 + 4 a23 + l a21 a22 +1 a23 = 0 , then find the value of l ….
a31 a32 a33 + 4 a31 a32 a33 +1

39. Match the following:

Column -I Column -II

(A) x x y x yz (p) 2

If 2 x 3x  2 y 4 x  3 y  2 z  343 then x
3x 6 x  3 y 10 x  6 y  3 z
=

(B) If a 2  b 2  c 2  2 and (q) 4

1  a2 x 1  b  x2
1  c  x
2

f  x   1  a 2  x 1  b2 x 1  c  x
2

1  a  x
2
1  b  x 2
1  c2 x

Then f  x  is a polynomial of degree

(C) a2  b2 (r) 0
c c
c
b2  c2
If a a  kabc then k 
a
c2  a2
b b
b

(D) If A, B, C are the angles of a triangle then (s) 7

sin 2 A sin C sin B
sin C sin 2 B sin A 
sin B sin A sin 2C
40. Consider the following linear equations

ax + by + cz = 0 ;bx + cy + az = 0;cx + ay + bz = 0

Match the following:

Column -I Column -II

(A) and (p) The equations represent planes

meeting only at a single point.

(B) and (q) The equations represent the line

(C) and (r) The equations represent identical

planes.

(D) and (s) The equations represent the whole

of the three dimensional space.

KEY:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
C D B B A D C B B A
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
A A B B D A C CD ACD ABD
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
AC AC ABC ABC ABD ABC ABCD BC ABCD B
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
D B 6 9 1 0 2 - -
39. (A) s ; (B) p ; (C) q ; (D) r 40. (A) (r); (B) (q); (C) (p); (D) (s)