Assignment I (MA 102)

1. Consider the matrix Y, shown below find its rank. Ans. Rank = 2

1 2 3
2 3 5
Y=
3 4 7
4 5 9

2. Find the independent row vectors among following row vectors. Ans. 2

0 1 2 3 2 1

3 3 3 3 4 5

 5 2  1 2
3. Show that B    is the inverse of A   .
 3 1  3 5
4. Prove that “If the inverse to a matrix A exists, then it is unique”.

5. Check the consistency of the following the linear system and solve (Note: use elementary
transformations for calculating the inverse)

𝑥−𝑧 =1

3𝑥 + 2𝑦 = −3

−𝑥 − 𝑦 = 2 Ans. 𝑥 = 1, 𝑦 = −3, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑧 = 0

6. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of

 1.5 0 1 
[ A]   0.5 0.5  0.5
 Ans.   1, 0.5, 0.5
 0.5 0 0 
7. Prove that If [ A] is a n  n triangular matrix – upper triangular, lower triangular or
diagonal, the eigenvalues of [ A] are the diagonal entries of [ A] .
1 6 1
8. Is A  1 2 0 diagonalizable?
0 0 3

 4  6
9. For Matrix A  
5 
Find the nonsingular matrix P and the diagonal matrix D
 3
such that
D  P 1 AP

and find An , n is any positive integer. Hint

2 n 0 
Dn       
 P 1 AP P 1 AP  P 1 AP  P 1 An P
0  1n 

10. State and prove Caley-Hamilton Theorem.

1 6 0
11. For matrix A  0 2 1 find the characteristic polynomial and hence find inverse of the
0 1 2
matrix.
 3 1 1
12. Show that the matrix A   2 1 2  is diagonalizable and find P such that P1 AP is a
 0 1 2 
diagonal matrix, hence obtain the matrix B  A2  5 A  3I .