UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA

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

Tutorial No: 03 Semester I, 2020

Submit answer sheets on or before: 16/07/2020

1. Find the rank of the following matrices using determinate:

   
1 2 1 −1 2 1 −3 0
(a) A =  9 5 2 2  , (b) B =  3 −3 1 0  ,
7 1 0 4 1 1 1 0
   
−3 −2 1 2 2 −1
(c) C =  3 1 4 , (d) D =  4 0 2  .
−8 5 7 0 6 −1

2. Reduce the following matrices to their normal forms and hence determinate the rank:
   
5 3 8 1 0 2 1
(a) A =  0 1 1  , (b) B =  2 1 3 2 ,
1 −1 0 1 3 1 3
   
1 2 3 1 1 −1 1
(c) C =  2 4 7  , (d) D =  1 −1 2 −1  .
3 6 10 3 1 0 1

 
a 1 2
3. Let A =  1 1 1  , where a is a real number.
−1 1 1−a
Find the rank of A.

4. Find an LU-decomposition of following matrices using row operations:

   
6 −2 0 3 −6 −3
(a) A =  9 −1 1  , (b) B =  2 0 6 ,
3 7 5 −4 7 4
 
1 2 1 4
 2 0 4 3 
(c) C =  4 2 2 1 .


−3 1 3 2
5. Determine the LU factorization of the matrix by using elementary matrices:
   
2 5 3 2 5 3
(a) A =  3 1 −2  , (b) B =  3 1 −2  .
−1 2 1 −1 2 1

6. Consider the following two matrices.

   
0 −3 −2 2 0 −1
A =  1 −4 −2  , B =  5 3 2 .
−3 4 1 2 2 2

(i) Show that A is invertible.

(ii) Find the rank of B.
(iii) Show that rank(AB) = rank(B).

 
2 1 −3 −6
7. Let A = 3 −3 1 2  . Find non-singular matrices P and Q such that P AQ is a
1 1 1 2
normal form.

 
3 −3 4
8. Let A = 2 −3 4 . Find non-singular matrices P and Q such that P AQ = I.
0 −1 1
Hence, find A−1 .

 
1 0
9. (a) Let A = . Verify that A2 = I.
3 −1
 
1 0 0 0
3 −1 0 0 2
(b) Let B = 
1 0 −1 0 . Use partitioned matrices to show that B = I.


0 1 −3 1

10. Assuming that the stated inverse exist, prove the following equalities:

(a) (C −1 + D−1 )−1 = C(C + D)−1 D,

(b) (I + CD)−1 C = C(I + DC)−1 ,
(c) (C + DDT )−1 D = C −1 D(I + DT C −1 D)−1 .

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