2018 Fall Math1b03 Final v1
2018 Fall Math1b03 Final v1
2018 Fall Math1b03 Final v1
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Duration of Exam: 2.5 hours
McMaster University Final Exam December 14, 2018
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1. Suppose that the augmented matrix of system of linear equations has been placed
into the following reduced row echelon form:
1 2 0 5 0 −3
0 0 1 −1 0 1
.
0 0 0 0 1 2
0 0 0 0 0 0
x 1 + x2 + x3 + x4 = 1
2x1 + 2x2 + 2x3 + 2x4 = 2
2018x1 + 2018x2 + 2018x3 + 2018x4 = 2018
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 2018
(e) Infinitely many
3. Let
2 5 4 −5
A= and B = .
−3 1 3 x
What are all the real values of x so that AB = BA.
(a) x = −5
(b) x = 1 or x = −1.
(c) x = 5.
(d) All real numbers x
(e) No such x exists
−1 1
4. Compute A if (AT − 3I)−1 = .
2 1
1 12 −2 1 8 2 1 10 −2
(a) (b) 3 (c) 4
4−2 7 1 10 −2 6
1 5 −2 4 −2
(d) 3 (e) 41
−1 7 −1 8
(a) Only B.
(b) Only D.
(c) A and B.
(d) Only C.
(e) None of them.
(a) AT BDA
(b) BAT DA
(c) (AT )−1 BDA
(d) AT B −1 DA
(e) AT BD−1 A
(a) A is invertible.
(b) Ax = 0 has a unique solution.
(c) The reduced row echelon form of A is In .
(d) λ = 0 is an eigenvalue of A.
(e) det(A) 6= 0.
9. The rank of a matrix A is the number of leading 1’s in the reduced row echelon
form of A. What is the rank of the matrix
1 2 −1 0
A = 0 4 −2a 2 .
2
1 4a + 2 −2a − 1 2a
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 3
(e) Not enough information; answer will depend upon the value of a.
where e1 , e2 and e3 are the standard basis vectors. What is the standard matrix of
this linear transformation?
1 1 3 4 1 3 1 2 3 1 2 3 −3 1 3
(a) 1 2 2
(b) 4 2 2
(c) 3
2 1 (d) 1 2 3 (e)−3 2 2
1 3 1 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 −3 3 1
12. Let A be a 2018 × 2018 lower triangular matrix. All the diagonal entries of A are
2
i
. What is the determinant of A?
1 22018
(a) 2
(b) i
(c) 22018 i (d) −22018 (e) −22018 i
A = [4 2 1 0 5; 0 1 2 1 0; 0 0 -2 0 10; 0 0 0 3 1; 0 0 0 0 1]
det(A)
A = [0 1 1; 1 0 1; 1 1 0]
e = eig(A)
(a) All of them (b) Only 1. (c) Only 1 and 2 (d) Only 2 and 3
(e) Only 1 and 3
17. Let
1 −2
A=
1 3
−1 + i
What is the eigenvalue associated to the eigenvector x = ?
1
z1
18. Given z1 = 4 cos π3 + i sin π π π
3
and z2 = 2 cos 9
+ i sin 9
compute z2
.
19. On the continent of Pangea, Tyrannosaurus Rexes and Velociraptors battle for re-
sources. Suppose that their populations are modeled by the differential equations
where y1 = y1 (t) is the size of the T. Rex population at time t and y2 = y2 (t) is the
Velociraptor population at time t. If one of the solutions is
y1 (t) −5 at 1 bt
=3 e + 2018 e ,
y2 (t) 2 1
(a) a = −1 and b = 6
(b) a = −6 and b = 1
(c) a = −6 and b = −1
(d) a = 6 and b = 1
(e) a = 6 and b = −1
20. Let θ be the angle between (1, 0, 2, 1) and (1, 2, 0, 1) in R4 . What is cos (θ)?
1 1
(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 2 (d) 0 (e) None of the above.
21. Suppose u = (1, u2 ) and v = (v1 , 4) are two vectors in R2 . If 2u − 3v = (−7, −8),
what are the values of u2 and v1 ?
(a) (0, 0, 0) (b) 95 (1, 1, 1) (c) 95 (1, 2, 2) (d) 53 (1, 1, 1) (e) 53 (1, 2, 2)
23. What is the area of the triangle in R2 with vertices at (2, 0), (3, 4), and (−1, 2)?
24. Let u and v be vectors of Rn , and consider the following three expressions:
25. Let L2,2 be the set of all 2×2 invertible matrices with the usual scalar multiplication,
but with a new vector addition operation given by:
(That is, our “addition” in L2,2 is matrix multiplication.) Recall the following axiom
of a vector space V :
Axiom 4. There is an object 0 in V , called the zero vector for V , such that
0 + u = u + 0 = u for all u in V .
What element of L2,2 is the zero vector with respect to the operation of addition as
defined above?
0 0 −1 0 −1
(a) (b) I2 (c) A (d) (e) There is no such element.
0 0 −1 0
That is, W is a subset of the vector space M2,2 (all 2 × 2 matrices) consisting of all
the upper triangular matrices. Which statement is true about W ?
28. Let
p1 (t) = 1 + x p2 (t) = 1 + x2 p3 (t) = x + x2 .
The set B = {p1 (t), p2 (t), p3 (t)} is a basis for the vector space P2 , the set of all
polynomials of degree at most two.
Let p(t) = 2 − x + x2 . Find the coordinates of p(t) with respect to the basis B.
(a) (1, −1, 2) (b) (0, 2, −1) (c) (0, 2, 2) (d) (2, −1, 0) (e) (−1, 1, 3)
0 0 1
0 0 2018 1 1
(1) The n column vectors of A are all orthogonal with each other.
(2) For every orthogonal matrix A, det(A) = 1 or −1.
(3) For any two vectors u, v ∈ Rn , u · v = (Au) · (Av).
32. Using A and B as in the Question 31, what is a basis for Row(A), the column space.
2 −3 1 0
−3 2 0 1 1 2
(a) ,
(b) ,
(c) 0 , 1
0 1 3 −2
−1 0
1 −0 −2 3
1 −1
1 0 2 0
(d) 0, 1 (e)
−1 , −3
0 0
4 2
33. Let u and v be orthogonal vectors in R3 . Which of the following statements are
true:
(1) span{u, v, u × v} = R3 .
(2) The set {u, v, u × v} is a linearly independent set of vectors in R3 .
(1) If W is a subset of a vector space V such that the zero vector 0 belongs to W ,
then W is a subspace of V .
(2) For any vector space V , the set {0} is a subspace of V .
(1) If {u1 , . . . , un } is an orthonormal basis for a vector space V , then ||ui || = 1 for
all i = 1, . . . , n.
(2) Every orthogonal basis of a vector space V is also an orthonormal basis for V .
(a) Adam
(b) Adam Van Tuyl
(c) Dr. Adam
(d) Professor Van Tuyl
(e) All of the above [This is the correct answer!]