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This document provides instructions for MATLAB Assignment 4 in a mathematics course. It is due on November 1, 2018. The assignment involves working with matrices, including extracting submatrices, finding reduced echelon forms, and using elementary matrices to compute inverses. Students are instructed to save their work in variables with specific names and save all variables as a .mat file to submit for grading.

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Ex4Data - Mat: 221 Matlab Assignment 4

This document provides instructions for MATLAB Assignment 4 in a mathematics course. It is due on November 1, 2018. The assignment involves working with matrices, including extracting submatrices, finding reduced echelon forms, and using elementary matrices to compute inverses. Students are instructed to save their work in variables with specific names and save all variables as a .mat file to submit for grading.

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221 MATLAB ASSIGNMENT 4

DUE 1 NOVEMBER 2018

In this assignment we will consider one-to-one, onto, and invertible matrices, find a basis for a column space,
and compute an inverse using elementary matrices.
This assignment comes with a file Ex4Data.mat. Import this file as you did in Exercise 1—refer to Exercise 1 if
you can’t remember how.

R EMINDER ABOUT CHOPPING UP MATRICES


There is a 10 × 10 matrix A in the file. You can extract sub-matrices from a matrix. For example, try
>> A(1:4, 2:5)
Figure out for yourself which elements of A appear in this matrix.
Try also
>> A( :, [1, 3:5, 8:end])
You can combine things together. For instance try
>> a
>> b
>> [A a b]

Exercise 1.
(a) Store the reduced echelon form of A in OneAmat. Is A one-to-one? Store "yes" or "no" in OneAword.
(b) Extract from A a submatrix which has the same column space and for which the associated transformation is
one-to-one. Store it in OneBmat.
(c) There are four vectors a, b, c, d in the file. Consider the matrices you can get by appending some or all of
these vectors to OneBmat, for example [OneBmat a c d] or [OneBmat b c]. At least one of these matrices
is invertible. Store such a matrix in OneCmat.

E LEMENTARY MATRICES
We consider 5 × 5 matrices. We denote by E i j (k) the 5 × 5 matrix that has 1s on the diagonal, k in position i , j —
that is, the entry in row i and column j is k—and 0s elsewhere. It is an example of an elementary matrix. These
matrices can be used to perform row operations on a matrix, as the next exercise demonstrates.
Recall the command
>> eye(n)
which produces the identity matrix of size n*n.
The file contains a 5 × 5 matrix B. The goal is to express its inverse in terms of elementary matrices.

Exercise 2.
(a) Create a 5 × 5 matrix of 0s, with a 1 in position 3,4. Store it in E34. Compute B * E34 and E34 * B and store
them in TwoAmatA and TwoAmatB respectively.
(b) Create a 5×5 matrix, E 3,4 (−2) that has ones on the diagonal, −2 in position 3,4. Find the inverse X = E 3,4 (−2)−1 ,
and store this matrix X in TwoBmat.
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2 DUE 1 NOVEMBER 2018

(c) Find and store matrices E1, E2, E3, E4 such that E1*E2*E3*E4*B is equal to the reduced echelon form of
B, and each one of these matrices is an elementary matrix as described in the introduction. Hint: each matrix
corresponds to a row-reduction step.1
(d) Find and store elementary matrices F1, F2, F3, F4 such that the inverse of B is F4*F3*F2*F1.

1We will grade this question by looking for matrices named E1, E2, E3, E4.
221 MATLAB ASSIGNMENT 4 3

H ANDING IN
It is now time to turn in your second MATLAB assignment for this course. Again you will be handing in your
assignment as a .mat file—that is a matlab file containing all your variables.
Here’s how:
(1) Check that you have a value stored for each of the questions you were asked this week. Your Workspace
should contain: OneAmat, OneAword, OneBmat, OneCmat, TwoAmatA,TwoAmatB, TwoBmat, E1, E2, E3,
E4, F1, F2, F3, F4. Please be aware that these names are case-sensitive. It is ok if your Workspace
contains other variables as well, we will ignore them.
(2) Save all your variables as a .mat file—do not make a .m file by mistake. There are several ways of doing
this, depending on how you are running MATLAB.
• If you’re using matlab.mathworks.com, you should save your variables using the command
>> save Math221Assignment4
This will save the variables in a file called “Math221Assignment4.mat” in mathworks’ cloud storage.
Then you will have to download it to the computer by selecting the file and using the download button:
• If you are running MATLAB on a computer locally, this is done by clicking the “Save workspace” but-
ton near the top of the screen.

(3) Upload your .mat file to Canvas. This is done by going to the Math 221 Canvas site, going to the Assign-
ments page, and following the instructions there.

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