M340L FINAL EXAM A SPRING, 2008 Dr.

Schurle
Your name: Your UTEID: Show all your work on these pages. Be organized and neat. Your work should be your own; there should be no talking, reading notes, checking laptops, using cellphones, . . . . THE EXAM HAS 12 PROBLEMS, EACH WORTH 10 POINTS. 1. In the process of solving the system of linear equations Ax = b, you have done row operations to the augmented matrix [A|b] to obtain the following. Solve the system.

1 2 3 1 4 0 2 0 4 8 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 0 5 10

2. Are the columns of the following matrix linearly independent? Show your work and explain your answer.

0 8 5 3 7 4 1 5 4 1 3 2

3. How many pivot columns must a 8 13 matrix A have in order that the columns of A span R8 ? Explain your answer.

4. If A, B, and C are 8 8 invertible matrices, does the equation C 1 (A + X)B 1 = I8 have a solution, X? If so, nd it. If not, explain why not.

5. Recall that P3 is the set of all polynomials of degree at most 3. Is the set of all polynomials p(t) in P3 for which p(1) = 2 a subspace of P3 ? Explain your answer.

1 0 6 5 2 4 2 4 1 is row equivalent to the matrix B = 0 2 5 3 . 6. The matrix A = 2 6 3 0 0 0 0 3 8 2 3 (a) Find a basis for Col A.

(b) Find a basis for Nul A.

(c) Find a basis for the row space of A.

(d) What is the dimension of Col A?

(e) What is the rank of A?

1 2 1 7. The vectors u1 = 3 , u2 = 5 , and u3 = 0 form a basis B for R3 . 1 6 4 (a) What is the change-of-coordinates matrix from B to the standard basis in R3 ?

2 (b) Find z if [z]B = 1 . 1

8. Suppose a nonhomogeneous system of seventeen linear equations in eighteen unknowns has a solution for all possible constants on the right sides of the equations. Is it possible to nd two nonzero solutions of the associated homogeneous system that are not multiples of each other? Explain your answer.

3 1 1 5 2 , and nd an eigenvector for the 9. Find the eigenvalues of the matrix A = 1 0 0 4 largest eigenvalue.

10. Find the equation y = 0 + 1 x of the least-squares line that best ts the data points (2, 0), (1, 4), (2, 4), (4, 5).

11. (a) Find an orthogonal basis for the subspace of R4 spanned by the vectors 2 1 0 3 . and u2 = u1 = 6 4 4 0

(b) Continuing from part (a), nd the change-of-coordinates matrix from the orthogonal basis to the basis {u1 , u2 }.

12. Find the vector in the subspace W of R4 spanned by the orthogonal vectors 5 1 1 3 2 3 , and then nd which is closest to the vector y = , and u2 = u1 = 0 1 1 3 1 4 a vector which is orthogonal to the subspace W .