MidtermISample1
MidtermISample1
Find the values of k and a, for which the resulting system has:
i) no solutions.
ii) a unique solution.
iii) infinitely many solutions.
Problem 2: (11 points)
1 0 −1
1 0 1 0 2 1 0
Consider the matrices A = 2 1 0 −1 and B =
0
.
1 0
0 −1 2 −1
−1 1 2
a. Compute AB and BA.
b. Find (AB)−1 using Gauss Jordan elimination.
c. Without using elimination explain why (BA) is not invertible.
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d. Solve the linear system (AB)x = 3 .
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Problem 3: (7 points)
Let v1 = (1, −k, 1, 1), v2 = (−1, k + 2, −2, k − 1), v3 = (1, 2, −1, k 2 + 2k − 3). Determine for which values of
k the vectors v1 , v2 , v3 are linearly independent and for which values of k they are linearly dependent.
Problem4: (7 points)
1 1 1 1 1
1 2 3 4 . Compute A−1 and use it solve the linear system Ax = 2 .
Let A =
1 3 6 10 3
1 4 10 20 5
Problem 5: (6 points)
Let V = Mn×n (R) be the vector space of n × n matrices.Fix a matrix A ∈ V and consider
W = {B ∈ V : AB = 0}
where 0 denotes the zero matrix of size n × n.
(a) Show that W is a subspace of V .
(b) Determine W when A ∈ V is invertible.
1 1
(c) Let n = 2. Determine W , if A = . Determine a basis for W. (related to this week’s lecture)
0 0
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Problem 6: (10 points)
Delete as appropriate and/or fill in the blanks.
(a) If 3 vectors in R3 span a plane through the origin, then these vectors are linearly .
(b) Let A be a 19 × 19 matrix. Suppose that a system of equations Ax = b has a unique solution. Then
the number of pivots of A = .
(c) Let A be a 37 × 37 invertible matrix and let R be the reduced row echelon form of A, then
R2022 = .
(d) The 2nd column of the matrix product AB is the of the of A, taken
with coefficients from the of B.
(f ) If the columns C1 , C2 , C3 , C4 of A ∈ M4×4 (R) satisfy 2C1 + 2C2 = C3 − 3C4 , then x =
is a
solution of Ax = 0.
(g) If rows 1 and 3 of A are the same, so are the rows 1 and 3 of AB. True/False, since......