Elementary Matrices In Exercises 1–8, determine Finding the Inverse of an Elementary Matrix

whether the matrix is elementary. If it is, state the In Exercises 19–24, find the inverse of the elementary
elementary row operation used to produce it. matrix.

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1 0 1 0 0 0 1 5 0
1. 2. 19. 20.
0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1

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1 0 0 1

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3. 4. 0 0 1 1 0 0
2 1 1 0 21. 0 1 0 22. 0 1 0

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2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 −3 1
5. 0 0 1 6. 0 1 0

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1 0 0 0

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0 1 0 2 0 1 k 0 0
0 1 k 0

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1 0 0 0 23. 0 1 0 24.
0 0 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 1
7. 0 0 0 1
0 −5 1 0 k≠0
0 0 0 1
Finding the Inverse of a Matrix In Exercises 25–28,

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1 0 0 0 find the inverse of the matrix using elementary matrices.
2 1 0 0 3 −2
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8. 2 0
0 0 1 0 25. 26.
1 0 1 1
0 0 −3 1

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1 0 −1 1 0 −2
Finding an Elementary Matrix In Exercises 9–12, 27. 0 6 −1 28. 0 2 1
let A, B, and C be 0 0 4 0 0 1

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1 2 −3 −1 2 0 Finding a Sequence of Elementary Matrices
A= 0 1 2 , B= 0 1 2 , and In Exercises 29–36, find a sequence of elementary
−1 2 0 1 2 −3 matrices whose product is the given nonsingular matrix.

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0 4 −3 1 2 0 1
29. 30.
C= 0 1 2 . 1 0 1 0
−1 −1
31. [
−1]
32. [
1]
2 0 4 1 1
9. Find an elementary matrix E such that EA = B. 3 2

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10. Find an elementary matrix E such that EA = C. 1 −2 0 1 2 3
33. −1 3 0 34. 2 5 6
11. Find an elementary matrix E such that EB = A.
0 0 1 1 3 4
12. Find an elementary matrix E such that EC = A.

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1 0 0 1 4 0 0 2
Finding a Sequence of Elementary Matrices 0 −1 3 0 0 1 0 1
In Exercises 13–18, find a sequence of elementary matrices 35. 36.
0 0 2 0 0 0 −1 2
that can be used to write the matrix in row-echelon form.
0 0 1 −1 1 0 0 −2

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0 3 −3 6
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0 1 7
13. 14. 1 −1 2 −2 37. Writing Is the product of two elementary matrices
5 10 −5
0 0 2 2 always elementary? Explain.
38. Writing E is the elementary matrix obtained by

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1 −2 −1 0 1 3 0
15. 0 4 8 −4 16. 2 5 −1 interchanging two rows in In. A is an n × n matrix.
−6 12 8 1 3 −2 −4 (a) How will EA compare with A? (b) Find E 2.

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−2 1 0 1 −6 0 2 39. Use elementary matrices to find the inverse of
3 −4 0 0 −3 3 9

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17. 18. 1 0 0
1 −2 2 2 5 −1 1
A= 0 1 0 , c ≠ 0.
−1 2 −2 4 8 −5 1
a b c

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