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Lab 3
APPLIED LINEAR ALGEBRA FOR IT - 501032

1 Exercises
Exercise 1: Using a command

to create the new matrices

from vectors
x= 1 2 3 4 5 , b= 1 2 3 4 5 6 , c=1:1:30 and d=1:1:25.
   
1 1 1 1 1 1 6 11 16 21 26
 2 2 2 2 2   2 7 12 17 22 27 
   
 3
(a) A =  3 3 3 3  (c) C =  3 8 13 18 23 28 
 
 4 4 4 4 4   4 9 14 19 24 29 
5 5 5 5 5 5 10 15 20 25 30
 
1 2 3 4 5 6  
 1 2 3 4 5 6  1 2 3 4 5
 
 1 2 3 4 5 6   6 7 8 9 10 
(b) B = 
 1
  
 2 3 4 5 6   (d) D =  11 12 13 14 15 

 1 2 3 4 5 6   16 17 18 19 20 
1 2 3 4 5 6 21 22 23 24 25

Exercise 2: Write a command that will create a 5×6 matrix with random integer entries with the elements
∈ [a, b], where a, b ∈ Z
   
1 2 3 3 2 1
Exercise 3: Write a command to flip the matrix A =  4 5 6  horizontally as follows B =  6 5 4 
7 8 9 9 8 7
   
1 2 3 7 8 9
Exercise 4: Write a command to flip the matrix A =  4 5 6  vertically as follows B =  4 5 6 
7 8 9 1 2 3
 
1 2 16 31 22
 2 8 12 21 23 
Exercise 5: Enter the matrix Y =   4 9 11 14 25 , provide a command to create vectors or


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matrices as follows:
 
8 12 21


(a) x = 8 12 21 (c) A =
9 11 14
   
16 1 16 22
 12   2 12 23 
(b) y =  11 
 (d) B = 
 4 11 25 


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 
2 12 21 23 (f) Create a D matrix from Y whose elements is
(e) C =  4 11 14 25  greater than 12
3 10 16 34
 
2 4 1
Exercise 6: Given the matrix A =  6 7 2 , provide commands to do the following:
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(a) Assign the first row of A into a vector called x1

(b) Assign the last 2 rows of A into the matrix called Y
 
2 7 9 7
Exercise 7: Let A =  3 1 5 6 . Write command that will
8 1 2 5
(a) Assign the even numbered columns of A into a new vector called B
(b) Assign the odd numbered rows into a new vector called C
(c) Convert A to a 4 × 3 matrix
Exercise 8: A local shop sells three types of ice cream flavours: strawberry, vanilla and chocolate. Straw-
berry costs 2$, vanilla 1$ and chocolate 3$ each. The sales of each ice cream are as show in the following
table.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Strawberry (S) 12 15 10 16 12
Vanilla (V) 5 9 14 7 10
Chocolate (C) 8 12 10 9 15

How to evaluate the total sales for each day.

Exercise 9: Let T be a (transition) matrix of a Markov chain and p be a probability vector. Then the
probability that the chain is in a particular state after k steps is given by the vector pk :
pk = T k p
Determine pk by any appropriate program for
   
0.6 0.7 0.5
T = , p= , and k = 1, 2, 10, 100, 100000.
0.4 0.3 0.5
   
  5 8   −6 3 1
−1 4 8 −4 1
Exercise 10: Let A = B =  0 −6  C = D =  8 9 −2 .
−9 1 2 6 5
5 6 6 −1 5
Computing the following, if possible

(a) (AB T ) (e) ((DT )T ) (i) ((2AT − 5B)T ) (m) ((C T )2 )

(b) (BC T ) (f) (2C T ) (j) ((−D)T )
(c) (C − C T ) (g) (AT + B) (k) (−(D)T )
(d) (D − DT ) (h) ((AT + B)T ) (l) ((C 2 )T )
 
2 4 1
Exercise 11: Let A =  6 7 2 
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(a) Is A matrix square or not? (d) Find Upper triangular matrix of A.

(b) Is A matrix symmetric or not?
(c) Is A matrix skew-symmetric or not? (e) Find Lower triangular matrix of A.

Exercise 12: Write a command to compute the determinant of the matrices below:
     
6 0 0 5 1 −2 5 2 3 5 −8 4
 1 7 2 −5   0 0 3 0   0 −2 3 −7 
A= , B =  , C =  ,
 2 0 0 0   2 −6 −7 5   0 0 1 5 
8 3 1 8 5 0 4 4 0 0 0 2
     
4 0 0 0 4 0 −7 3 −5 6 3 2 4 0
 7 −1 0 0   0 0 2 0 0   9 0 −4 1 0 
     
 2
D= 6 3 , E =  7
0   3 −6 4 −8  , F = 
 8 −5 6 7 1 

 5 −8 3 0   5 0 5 2 −3   3 0 0 0 0 
5 −8 4 −3 0 0 9 −1 2 4 2 3 2 0

Exercise 13: Is it true that det(A + B)=detA+detB? To find out, generate random 5 × 5 matrices A
and B, and compute det(A + B)−detA−detB. Repeat the calculations for three other pairs of n × n
matrices, for various values of n.

Exercise 14: Is it true that detAB=(detA)(detB)?. Repeat the calculation for four pairs of random ma-
trices.
2 4 25 1 −1 3
   
2 4
Exercise 15: Let A and B be the following 3 × 3 matrices  −3
4 2 41 , B =  32 1
2 −2 
1 1 1 1
4 2 2 4 1 2

(a) Calculate A−1 B −1 , (AB)−1 , and (BA)−1

(b) Find (A−1 )T and (AT )−1

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