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Midterm Exam

STAT 5645/6645 - Fall semester 2024

Instructions: Due Date: Wed. Oct. 23 11:59PM.


This exam is open materials. Here are the rules for the two course levels:

• 5645 Students: You may discuss problems and solution strategies together, but your submitted work
must be your own. You may also seek help from Haozhe or Dr. Walsh

• 6645 Students: You must work individually on this exam, but you may discuss problems and solutions
with Haozhe or Dr. Walsh.

Write your solutions as well-organized narratives or coherent mathematical arguments with complex steps
justified via invoking a theorem, definition, or other results. If you don’t quite understand a problem when
you hand in the exam, show your work and what you were thinking on the problem - I will award partial
credit for hard work that moves in the direction of a solution.
You can use any computer program to help solve a problem as long as you explain what calculations you
used, how, and why as part of your solution.

Honesty Statement: I have followed the instructions for this exam. The work here represents my own.
I have not cheated nor done anything like cheating on this exam.

Matrix Algebra and Vector Space Concepts

1. (15pts - 5645) (5pts - 6645) Problem 2.11 in the book.

2. (15pts - 5645) (5pts - 6645) Let matrices A and B be conformable for both AB and BA multipli-
cations.

(a) Show that tr(AB) = tr(BA).


(b) Extend the result to tr(ABC) = tr(CAB) = tr(BCA).

3. (20pts - 5645) (10pts - 6645) Consider the linear transformation given by the matrix A with respect
to the standard basis.

1
 
1 −3 4
 
A=
−1 2 −3

2 1 1

(a) Find a basis for the kernel of the transformation (i.e. null space of A).
(b) Find a basis for the image of the transformation (i.e. column space of A).

4. (20pts - 5645) (10pts - 6645) For the vector space of matrices in R2×2 , does the following set of
matrices constitute a basis for this space? Explain your reasoning.

" # " # " # " #


0 1 3 2 2 3 1 −2
A= , B= ,C = ,D =
−5 −4 0 1 1 0 4 5

5. (20pts) Consider the set V = (0, ∞) (i.e. the open interval between 0 and infinity). Let x, y ∈ V and
L J
a ∈ R. Define vector addition ( ) and scalar multiplication ( ) to be, respectively,
M
x y =xy
K
a x =xa .

Prove that the set V with these operations forms a vector space.

6. (25 pts) Construct a projection matrix P that projects from R3 to the space orthogonal to the two-
dimensional plane described by the equation x1 + x2 + x3 = 0. Hint: read the problem carefully. It
may be helpful to draw a picture or seventeen.

7. (20 pts - 6645) Let Vn ⊂ Rn be a vector space. Suppose that P is a projection operator that projects
onto Vn along Vn⊥ . Prove that P is symmetric.

8. (20 pts - 5545) (10 pts - 6645) Let X ∈ Rn×p with rank r. Verify that N (X T ) is a vector space.

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