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This document is a tutorial sheet for a mathematics course covering topics related to rank and row space. It contains 10 problems asking students to determine the rank of various matrices, find values that result in matrices of a given rank, and determine whether certain vectors are in the row space of given matrices.

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This document is a tutorial sheet for a mathematics course covering topics related to rank and row space. It contains 10 problems asking students to determine the rank of various matrices, find values that result in matrices of a given rank, and determine whether certain vectors are in the row space of given matrices.

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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-K K Birla Goa Campus

Second Semester 2021-2022

MATHEMATICS-II (MATH F112)

Tutorial Sheet-2

Topic: Rank and Row Space

1. Are the following system of equations equivalent?

x1 + 2x2 = 1,
x1 + x2 = 0,

and

2x1 + x2 = −1,
−x1 + x2 = 2.

2. Find the rank of the following matrices

(a)  
97 89
.
23 73
(b)  
4 1 −2
 3 7 −1  .
−1 −5 1
(c)  
−1 1 −1 1
 1 1 −1 −1  .
−1 −1 1 −1
(d)  
1 2 1 3
 0 −1 −2 1 
 .
 −4 1 3 −7 
6 1 0 2
(e)  
1 −7 9 2
 2 −2 1 1 
 3 4 −7 −4  .
 

6 −5 3 −1

1
(f)  
2 −1 2 −2
 1 3 −3 1 
 4 5 −4 0  .
 

7 7 −5 −1

3. Determine the values of a and b so that the following matrix A, where


 
1 1 1
A =  1 a a2  ,
1 b b2

has rank 1.

4. Find replacements of a1 , a2 , a3 and a4 so that the matrix


 
1 3 2
 7 a1 a2  ,
a3 a4 11

has rank 1.

5. The rank of the matrix  


2 0 −1
A =  4 0 −2  ,
6 0 −3
is 1. Then find the rank of the matrix 3 A.

6. For what values of β, the rank of the matrix A is 2, where


 
1 4 5 2
A =  2 1 3 0 .
−1 3 2 β

7. Does the following system of equations

2x1 + 3x2 − 9x3 = 0,


−x1 − x2 − 17x3 = 0,

have any nontrivial solution? Justify your answer.

8. Does the following system of equations

−x1 − 2x2 − 37x3 = 0,


11x1 + 23x2 − 19x3 = 0,
2x1 + x2 + 3x3 = 0,

have any nontrivial solution? Justify your answer.

2
9. Is (2, 9, 14, 25) in the row space of the matrix A? where
 
2 2 4 2
A= 1 2 3 4 .
1 3 7 9

10. Is (−1, −2, 2, 0) in the row space of the matrix A? where


 
1 2 0 −1
A= 2  0 −1 −2  .
0 −1 −2 2

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