Many Vongse

Professor Suda Satcuna

Math 1050-014
4 May 2016
Math Project
On page 600 question 87 part A asks us to find the inverse of the given matrix K.

K=

[ ]
2 1 1
1 1 0
1 1 1

To find the inverse of the matrix K we have to put into the matrix

[ K|I 3 ]

which should then

look like this with the Identity Matrix on the right side.

[ | ]
2 1 11 0 0
1 1 00 1 0
1 1 10 0 1

Now you must use row operations to get the identity matrix onto the other side. I started with
Row One divided by 2. Then I subtracted Row One from Row Two and Row Three.

[ | ]
1

Step 1:

1
1

1
2
1
1

1
2
0
1

1
2
0
0

[ | ]
1

0 0

Step 2:

1 0
0 1

0
0

1
2
1
2
1
2

1
2
1
2
1
2

1
2
1
2
1
2

[ I |K ]
1

I kept doing row operations until I ended up with the matrix

0 0
1 0
0 1

with the Identity matrix

now on the left side which look like this.

[ |

1 0 0 1
0 1
0 1 0 1 1
1
0 0 1 0 1 1

In part B of the question it then asks me decode the give matrix E. The message will be on the
1
matrix M, which was not given but it does tell us that, M =E K
.

E=

47 34 33
44 36 27
47 41 20

13 1 20
E K1= 8 9 19
6 21 14

In part C it asks us to find out what the matrix M is saying. Each number represent the letter of
the alphabet from A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on.
The message on the matrix M is the phrase, math is fun.