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Tutorial 3

Practice exercises
Do these practice exercises in SOWISO Tutorial 3 to get feedback:

1. Find the inverse of the matrices below, if they exist.


   
! ! 1 0 −2 1 2 −1
1 −3 3 6
−3 1 4 −4 −7 3
   
4 −9 4 7
 
2 −3 4 −2 −6 4
! ! !
1 2 −1 0
2. Let A = , B1 = , B2 = . Find A−1 , and use it to solve the two equations
5 12 3 0

AX = B1 AX = B2 ,
!
x1
where X = .
x2

3. Let A and B be 4 × 4 matrices, with det A = −1 and det B = 2. Compute:

(a) det(AB) (b) det(B5 ) (c) det(2A) (d) det(AT A) (e) det(B−1 AB)

4. Compute the determinants of the matrices below.


   
! 3 0 4 0 5 1
1 2
2 3 2 4 −3 0
   
−1 1
0 5 −1 2 4 1
 
a b c
5. Suppose det d e f  = 7. Calculate the following determinants:
 
g h i
 
a b c
(a) det  d e f 
 
5g 5h 5i
 
a b c
(b) det g h i 
 
d e f
 
g h i
(c) det a b c 
 
d e f
 
a+d b+e c+ f
(d) det  d e f
 

g h i

Problems

1. (a) An m × n upper triangular matrix is one whose entries below the main diagonal are 0’s. Argue
without using determinants that if a square upper triangular matrix has all diagonal entries different
from zero, then it is invertible.
(b) Classify each of the matrices below as invertible or non-invertible without using determinants and
without doing any computation, but only giving an argument based on some readily seen property of
the matrix.
 
      0 0 0 −1
−5 1 4 2 8 3 1 0 1
 4 0 0 0 
 
 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 
    

0 2 0 0 
0 0 8 1 4 9 1 0 1
0 0 1 0
 
a 1 −1
2. Find the values of a for which the following matrix is invertible: 0 −a 2 .
 
1 4 3

3. Let    
0 1 0 6 3 5 2 9
2 0 3 8 2 8 0 0
B= , C=
   
−3 0 −1 0

0 0 4 2
0 0 0 4 9 0 0 0
Find det(B2C−1 ).

4. (Midterm 2023) Let k ∈ R. Consider the linear system

x1 − x2 + x3 = k,
x1 + kx2 + x3 = 1,
kx1 + x2 = 1.

(a) Determine the values of k for which the linear system has a unique solution.
(b) Choose a value of k for which the system has a unique solution and then solve the system.
(c) Study the cases for which the system does not have a unique solution. When is it inconsistent, when
does it have infinitely many solutions?

5* Let A, B,C be n × n matrices. Prove that if A is invertible, then AB = AC ⇒ B = C and AB = 0 ⇒ B = 0. Is


it possible for AB to be invertible if A is not?

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