PUSAT PENGAJIAN PENDIDIKAN JARAK JAUH

ACADEMIC SESSION 2016/2017
JIM 105 – BASIC MATHEMATICS

ASSIGNMENT 1
Answer all questions. Assignment must be hand written.
The dateline for this assignment is 15 December 2016.

 2 3  4 0  2  11 
1. Let A    , B  , C    and D   .
 0 5  1 6  1   10 
Compute X if, AC  BX  D .

2. Using elementary row operations, reduced the following matrices to reduced row echelon
form.
 2 1 4  1 1 1 
a) A  4 1 6                                  b) B  1 1 2 
 
   
 1 1 1 1 1 1 

 1 0 0 1 0 0 
3. Given that A  0 1 0 and B   0 1 0  .
 
   
 2 0 1   2 0 1 
Compute AB and BA. What can you conclude about the relationship between A and B?

4. Consider the following system of linear equations.

x  y  2z  1
x  2 y  3z  4  
2x  y  z  3
(a) Write the above system of linear equations in the matrix form AX = b.
(b) Solve using Cramer’s Rule.
(c) Solve using inverse matrix.
(d) Solve using Gauss-Jordan elimination method.

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