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The document contains 15 problems regarding properties of matrices including: 1) Proving identities involving matrix multiplication and transposition. 2) Showing that certain matrices are symmetric or skew-symmetric. 3) Finding inverse matrices and simplifying expressions involving inverse matrices.

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The document contains 15 problems regarding properties of matrices including: 1) Proving identities involving matrix multiplication and transposition. 2) Showing that certain matrices are symmetric or skew-symmetric. 3) Finding inverse matrices and simplifying expressions involving inverse matrices.

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Matrices (201-105-DW, 201-NYC-05 Regular & Commerce)

1. Given that AB  BA for some matrices A and B


a) prove that A2 B  BA2 b) prove that AT BT  BT AT c) simplify  A  B   A2  AB  B 2 

2. Given A2  A show that  I  A  I  A


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3. Suppose A2  2 A  I for some matrix A . Prove that a) A3  3 A  2I b) A4  4 A  3I


4. If A is any matrix, prove that AAT is symmetric.
5. Show that if A is symmetric then A2 is also symmetric
6. Show that if A is symmetric matrix then X  5 A  AAT is also symmetric.
7. Prove that AT B  BT A is symmetric for any n  n matrices A and B .
8. Prove that AB  BA is symmetric if A and B are symmetric matrices of the same order. .
9. Show that if A is symmetric and invertible then A1 and X  2 A1  4 AAT  3 A4  5I are symmetric.
10. Show that a) If A3  A  I then A1  A2  I ; b) If A4  A3  A2  A  I then A1  A3  A2  A  I
3 2 5
c) If A2  8 A  I  0 then A1  A  8I ; d) If 3 A3  4 A2  5 A  2I  0 then A1  A  2A  I .
2 2
11. Find B 1 (as a function of B):
a) B3  2B2  B  I b) B4  I  0
c) 3B3  2B  6I  0 d) 4B4  5B3  6B  2I
1 2 3
0 1  1 2  1 3 5 
12. Find X if a)  X  4 I    1 1 1
1
c)  2 X  3I 
1
T
  ; b)   X  ;
1 0  0 1  0 1 2   2 3 5 
1
1 2  0 1  4 3  1 1   3 0 
1 
d)   X X  ; e) (for 201-NYC-05) X      2X  .
2 0 1 1  0 5  2 1  5 3 
3 2 
.Find A1 ,  AT  ,  4A 
1 1
13. Let A    , A3 , 3 A2  2 A  5 A0  A1  4 A2 , p( A) where p( x)  x 2  x  3 .
8 5 
3AC B 1   2CA  b) B 1  2 AT A0 B 2  A 
1 1
14. Simplify : a)   B 
1 T T T 2 T

15. The matrix A is called skew-symmetric if AT   A .


a) Prove that A   B  BT  is skew-symmetric for any n  n matrix B.
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b) If A is any n  n skew-symmetric matrix prove that A2 is symmetric. What about A3 , A4 ?

c) Let A and C be skew-symmetric n  n matrices.


Is a matrix X  A2C  CA2 symmetric, skew-symmetric or neither?

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