UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
Bachelor of Science (General) Degree (Level II)
MATHEMATICS
MAT 211β : LINEAR ALGEBRA

Tutorial No: 02 Semester I, 2020

Submit answer sheets on or before : 06/07/2020

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1 2 4
1. Let A = −2 5 3 .
−1 6 3
Write down the matrix A as the sum of a symmetric and a skew symmetric matrices.

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1 1 1 a 1 −1
2. The inverse of the matrix A = 1 1 2 is the matrix A−1 =  1 b 1  .
1 2 3 −1 1 0
Determine the values of a and b.

3. Prove or disprove! If (A, B, A + B) ∈ (GLn (R))3 , then (A + B)−1 = A−1 + B −1 .

4. Let A ∈ Mn (F) and let n be a positive integer. prove that A is invertible if and only if An
is invertible for all n ∈ Z+ .

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0 2β γ
5. Let A = α β −γ  , where α, β, γ ∈ R.
α −β γ
For what values of α, β, γ the matrix A is orthogonal?

6. If a matrix A satisfies a relation A2 +A−I = 0 prove that A−1 exists and that A−1 = A+I.

7. Use elementary row operations to transform

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1 2 3
(a) the matrix A = 2 5 7 into a upper triangular matrix;
3 1 2
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1 3 3
(b) the matrix B = 2 4 10 into a unit matrix.
3 8 4
    
cos θ sin θ 1 tan θ
8. Let A = and B = .
− sin θ cos θ 0 1
Show that A and B are row equivalent.

 
3 1
9. (a) Find inverse of the matrix A = .
4 2
 
1 0 −3
(b) Let B = 2
 −2 1  .
0 −1 3
Find
(i) |B|.
(ii) the cofactor matrix of matrix B.
(iii) adj(B).
(iv) B −1 .

 
cosθ −sinθ 0
10. Let A = sinθ cos θ 0 .
0 0 1

(i) Find the determinant of the matrix A.

(ii) Find A−1
(ii) Show that A is orthogonal.

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1 0 0
11. Let A = 0 −3 0.
0 0 2
−1
Find (a) A , (b) A5 and (c) A−5 .

12. Using elementary transformations find the inverse of each of the following matrices:
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3 −3 4 2 −6 −2 −3
(a) A = 2 −3
 4 ;  5 −13 −4 −7
(b) B =  .
0 −1 1 −1 4 1 2
0 1 0 1

Just because we can’t find a solution, it doesn’t mean there isn’t one.— Andrew Wiles.