MATRICES

EXERCISE-2
MULTI CORRECT

 sin  i cos  
1. If A(  )    , then which of the following is not true?
i cos  sin  
(a) A()-1 = A( - ) (b) A() + A( + ) is a null matrix
(c) A() is invertible for all   R (d) A()-1 = A (-)
2. If A is a matrix such that A2 + A + 2 = O, then which of the following is/are true?
(a) A is non – singular (b) A is symmetric
1
(c) A cannot be skew – symmetric (d) A1   ( A   )
2
0 2b c 
3. If  a b c  is orthogonal, then
 a b c 
1 1
(a) a   (b) b  
2 12
1
(c) c   (d) None of these
3
1 2 2
4. Let A   2 1 2  . Then
 2 2 1 
1
(a) A2 – 4A - 53 = O (b) A1  ( A  4I 3 )
5
(c) A3 is not invertible 2
(d) A is invertible
 1 0
5. Let A = 
1 1  , then
 
2
(a) A = 2A – I (b) A2 = 3A – I
 1 0
(c) A2 = 3A –I (d) A100   
 100 1
6. Let An be an n  n matrix in which diagonal elements are
1, 2, 3, ….,n (i.e., a11 = 1, a22 = 2, …..aii = i, …ann = n) and all other elements are equal to n

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 (a) An is singular for all n (b) An is non-singular for all n
n
(c) det An = (-1) n! (d) det An = (-1)n + 1 n!
7. If D1 and D2 are two 3  3 diagonal matrices where none of the diagonal element is zero, then
(a) D1D2 is a diagonal matrix (b) D1D2 = D2D1
2 2
(c) D1 + D2 is a diagonal matrix (d) none of these
8. If A and B are two square matrices such that their product AB is a null matrix, then
(a) det. A  0  B must be a null matrix.
(b) det. B  0  A must be a null matrix.
(c) If none of A and B are null matrices, then at least one of the two matrices must be singular
(d) If neither det. A nor det. B is zero, then the given statement is not possible.
9. If there are three square matrices A, B, C of same order satisfying the equation A2 = A-1 and
n ( n2 )
let B = A2 & C  A2 , then which of the following statements are true?
(a) det. (B - C) = 0 (b) (B + C)(B - C) = 0
(c) B must be equal to C (d) none
10. A square matrix A with elements from the set of real numbers is said to be orthogonal if
AT = A-1. If A is an orthogonal matrix, then
(a) AT is orthogonal (b) A-1 is orthogonal
(c) adj. A = AT (d) |A-1| = 1
 x if i  j,x  R
11. Let A = aij be a matrix of order 3, where aij = aij   1 if | i  j | 1 , then which of the
0 otherwise
following holds(s) good?
(a) for x = 2, A is a diagonal matrix
(b) A is a symmetric matrix
(c) For x = 2, det A has the value equal to 6
(d) Let f(x) = det A, then the function f(x) has both the maxima and minima
12. If A is a invertible idempotent matrix of order n, then adj A is equal to
(a) (adj A)2 (b) I
-1
(c) A (d) none of these
0 0 1 
13. If A  0 1 0  , then
 1 0 0 
 0 0 1
(a) adjA is zero matrix (b) adjA   0 1 0 
 1 0 0 

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 (c) A1  A (d) A2  I
14. If A and B are square matrices of the same order such that A2 = A, B2 = B, AB = BA, then
which one of the following may be true?
(a) A(B)2 = O (b) (A + B)2 = A + B
(c) (A - B)2 = A – B (d) none of these
 a b ( a  b )
15. The matrix b c ( b  c )  is non invertible, if
 2 1 0 
1
(a)   (b) a, b, c are in A.P.
2
(c) a, b, c are in G.P (d) a, b, c are in H.P.

NUMERIC BASED TYPE

0 1  0 
16. Let A    and  A8  A6  A4  A2    V    (where  is the 2  2 identity matrix),
3 0  11
then the product of all elements of matrix V is
0 1 1
17. Let X be the solution set of the equation A = I, where A  4 3 4  and  is the
x

 3 3 4 
corresponding unit matrix and x  N , then the minimum value of  (cosx  + sinx ),   R.
3x 2  ( x  2 )2 5x 2 2x 
   
18. Let A   1  , B  [ a b c ] and C   5x 2 2x ( x  2 )2  be three given
 6x   2x ( x  2 )2 5x 2 
  
matrices, where a, b, c and x  R. Given that tr.(AB) = tr.(C) , where tr.(A) denotes trace of
A. If ƒ(x) = ax2 + bx + c, then the value of ƒ(1) is
19. Let A be the set of all 3  3 skew symmetric matrices whose entries are either -1, 0 or 1. If
there are exactly three 0’s, three 1’s and three (-1)’s, then the number of such matrices, is
20. Let A = [aij] 3×3 be a matrix such that AAT = 4I and aij + 2cij = 0 , where cij is the cofactor of
aij and I is the unit matrix of order 3. Let
a11  4 a12 a13 a11  1 a12 a13
a21 a22  4 a23  5 a21 a22  1 a23  0 , then the value of 10 is
a31 a32 a33  4 a31 a32 a33  1

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21. Let S be the set which contains all possible values of l, m, n, p, q, r for which
l2  3 p 0
A 0 m 8 2
q be a non-singular idempotent matrix. Then the sum of all the
r 0 n 2  15
elements of the set S is
22. If A , a diagonal matrix of order 3  3 , is commutative with every square matrix of order 3  3
under multiplication and tr(A) = 12, then the value of |A|1/2 is
23. A is a square matrix of order n.
= maximum number of distinct entries if A is a triangular matrix
m = maximum number of distinct entries if A is a diagonal matrix
p = minimum number of zeroes if A is a triangular matrix
If + 5 = p + 2m, find the order of the matrix.
24. Let A be a 3  3 matrix such that a11 = a33 = 2 and aij = 1, otherwise. Let
A-1 = xA2 + yA + zI, then find the value of (x + y + z) , where I is a unit matrix of order 3.

Paragraph for Questions 25-26

Consider an arbitrary 3  3 matrix A = [aij], a matrix B = [bij] is formed such that bij is the sum of all
the elements except aij in the ith row of A.
25. If there exists a matrix X with constant elements such that AX = B, then X is
(a) skew – symmetric (b) null matrix
(c) diagonal matrix (d) none of these
26. The values of |B| is equal to
A
(a) A (b)
2
(c) 2 A (d) none of these

Paragraph for Questions 27-28

1 0 0 
Let A   1 0 1  satisfies An = An – 2 + A2 – I for n  3. Let trace of a square matrix X is equal to
0 1 0 
the Sum of elements in its principal diagonal. Further consider a matrix U with its columns as
33

U1 , U 2 , U 3 such that

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 1 0  0 
A U 1   25  , A U 2   1 , A U 3  0  .
50   50   50

 25  0   1 
50
27. Trace of A equals
(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) 3

28. The value of U equals

(a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) -1

Paragraph for Questions 29-30

Let A = [aij] and B = [bij] be two 3  3 matrices with
2 if i j

aij   1 if i  j  3k  2, k  
0 otherwise

1 if i  j  3m  1, m  
bij  
0 otherwise
29. Which of the following does not hold true?
(a) det A = det B + 3 (b) det A = 2 det B
(c) det A = (det (B))2 (d) None of these
30. The incorrect statement is
(a) A = B2 (b) AB is commutative
(c) (AB)-1 = A-1 B-1 (d) (B + I)3 = AB + 6A + I

Paragraph for Questions 31-32

Consider the system of equations
x + y – z = b1
2x + z = b2
x – y + az = b3
31. If this system is denoted by AX = B, then for a = 1, the value of A-1 is
 1/ 2 0 1/ 2   1/ 2 0 1/ 2 
(a)  1 / 2 1 3 / 2  (b)  1 / 2 1 3 / 2 
 1 1 1   1 1 1 

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  1/ 2 0 1/ 2   1/ 2 0 1/ 2 

(c)  1 / 2 1 3 / 2  (d)  1 / 2 1 3 / 2 
 1 1 1   1 1 1 
32. If B = 0, then the value of ‘a’ for which AX = B have non trivial solution, is
(a) 2 (b) 3
(c) 1 (d) none

Paragraph for Questions 33-35

If A is a symmetric and B is a skew symmetric matrix and A + B is non singular and
C = (A + B)-1(A - B), then
33. CT(A + B) C =
(a) A + B (b) A – B
(c) A (d) B
T
34. C (A - B)C =
(a) A + B (b) A – B
(c) A (d) B
T
35. C AC=
(a) A + B (b) A – B
(c) A (d) B

Paragraph for Questions 36-38

 2 2 4   4 3 3 
 
Let A0   1 3 4  and B0   1 0 1  . Let Bn = adj (Bn -1), n  N and I is an identity
 1 2 3   4 4 3 
matrix of order 3.
36. det. (A0 + A02 B02  A03  A04 B04  .......10 terms ) is equal to
(a) 1000 (b) – 800
(c) 0 (d) –8000
37. B1 + B2 + …… + B49 is equal to
(a) B0 (b) 7B0
(c) 49B0 (d) 49
38. For variable matrix X, the equation A0X = B0 will have
(a) unique solution (b) infinite solutions
(c) finitely many solutions (d) no solution

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Paragraph for Questions 39-40
Let A is a matrix of order 3  3 and aij is its element of ith row and jth column. Let tr is arithmetic
mean of elements of rth row and aij + ajk + aki = 0 holds for all 1  i, j,k  3 .
39. 
1 i , j  3
aij is not equal to

(a) t1  t2  t3 (b) zero

2
(c) (det(A)) (d) t1t2t3
40. A is
(a) non-singular (b) symmetric
(c) skew symmetric (d) neither symmetric nor skew symmetric

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MATRIX MATCH TYPE

41. Match the column:

Column-I Column-II
(A) ( - A) is, if A is idempotent
n
(P) 2 ( - A)
n-1

(B) ( - A)n is, if A is involuntary (Q)  - nA

(C) ( - A)n is, if A is nilpotent of index 2 (R) A
(D) If A is orthogonal, then (AT)-1 (S)  - A

42. Match the column:

Column-I Column-II
 1  (P) 16
( r  1 ) r 
(A) If Mr is defined as M r   ,
 1 1 
 ( r  1 )2 
then Lim  det M 2  det M 3  ...  det M n 
log n

n 

1 cos  cos  0 cos  cos  (Q) 4

(B) If cos  1 cos   cos  0 cos  ,
cos  cos  1 cos  cos  0
then sin2 + sin2 + sin2 =
 3 1 (R) 2
(C) If A    and a matrix C is defined as
 1 1
C = (BAB-1)(B-1ATB), where |B|  0, then
det. C is a square of natural number equal to
 1 1 (S) 1
(D) If A    and A4 = - I , then  equals
 1 1

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43. Match the column:

Column-I Column-II
 2 2 4  (P) Idempotent
(A)  1 3 4 
 1 2 3 

 5 8 0  (Q) Involuntary
(B)  3 5 0 
 1 2 1
 1 2 2  (R) Nilpotent
1
(C)  2 1 2 
3
 2 2 1

1 1 3 (S) Orthogonal
(D)  5 2 6 
 2 1 3

44. Consider a square matrix A of order 2, which has 4 distinct elements as 0, 1, 2 and 4. Let N
denote the number of such matrices, all elements of which are distinct.
Column-I Column-II
(A) Possible non-negative value of det(A) is (P) 2
(B) Sum of values of determinants (Q) 4
corresponding to N matrices is
(C) If absolute value of det(A) is least, then (R) -2
 
possible value of adj adj  adj  A   is
(D) If det(A) is algebraically least, then (S) 0
possible value of det(4A-1) is
(T) 8

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 3 4  a b 
45. Consider the matrices A    and B    . Let P be any orthogonal matrix and
1 1 0 1
Q  PAPT & R  PT Q K P . Also, S  PBPT and T  PT S K P

Column-I Column-II
(A) If we vary K from 1 to n , then the first (P) G.P. with common ratio a
row first column elements of R will form
(B) If we vary K from 1 to n , then the (Q) A.P. with common difference 2
second row second column elements of R
will form
(C) If we vary K from 1 to n , then the first (R) G.P. with common ratio b
row first column elements of T will form
(D) If we vary K from 3 to n , then the first (S) A.P. with common difference 2
row second column elements of T will
represent the sum of

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 ANSWER KEY

1. A, B, C 16. 0 31. D
2. A, C, D 17. 2 32. A
3. A, C 18. 7 33. A
4. A, B, D 19. 8 34. B
5. A, B, C, D 20. 4 35. C
6. B, D 21. 0 36. C
7. A, B, C 22. 8 37. C
8. A, B, C, D 23. 4 38. D
9. A, B, C 24. 1 39. D
10. A, B 25. D 40. C
11. B, D 26. C 41. AS; B P; CQ; DR
12. A, B, C 27. D 42. AS; BR; CQ; DQ
13. B, C, D 28. B 43. AP; BQ; CS; DR
14. A, B, C 29. A 44. APQT; BS; CPR; DR
15. A, C 30. D 45. AQ; B S; CP; DP

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