 3 a −1  d 3 a 

  
1. A = 2 5 c is symmetric and B = b − a e −2b − c  is skew-symmetric, then find AB.
   
b 8 2   −2 6 − f 

 2 − 2 + 1  − 2 
2. If   = A + B + C , where A, B and C are matrices then find the matrices A, B and C.
2

1 −  + 3 1 −  
2 2

3. If D = diag  d1, d 2 ,.....d n  then prove that f ( D ) = drag  f ( d1 ) , f ( d 2 ) ,..., f ( d n )  , where f ( x ) is a polynomial
with scalar coefficients.

4. Let A, B, C, D be (not necessarily square) real matrices such that AT = BCD; BT = CDA; C T = DAB and
DT = ABC for the matrix S = ABCD , prove that S 3 = S .

 −1 1 
5. If A =   , then prove that A2 + 3 A + 2 I = O . Further, find matrices B and C of order 2 with integer
 0 −2
elements if A = B3 + C 3 .
6. If matrix A is skew-symmetric of odd order, then show that tr ( A ) = det ( A )
7. If A is a nonsingular matrix satisfying AB − BA = A , then prove that det ( B + I ) = det ( B − I ) .

8. If A and B are square matrices of same order such that AB = O and det ( B )  O , then prove that A = 0 .

 8  p8 − 1  
 p q p q 
9. If A =   , then show that A ==   p −1  .
8

 0 1  0 
 1 

10. If a square matrix A of order three is defined A =  aij  where aij = sgn ( i − j ) , then prove that A is skew
symmetric matrix.

11. If M is a 3  3 matrix, where det ( M ) = 1 and MM T = I where ‘I’ is an identity matrix, then prove that
det ( M − I ) = 0 .

12. Find the possible square roots of the two-rowed unit matrix I.

 cos  sin   An
13. Let A =  , then find where   R .
cos  
lim
 − sin  n → n

14. Let A be an orthogonal matrix and B is a matrix such that AB = BA then show that ABT = BT A .
 
15. If  is to be the square root of two rowed unit matrix, then  ,  ,  should satisfy the relation a matrix.
 − 
(a) 1 −  2 +  = 0 (b)  2 +  − 1 = 0
(c) 1 +  2 +  = 0 (d) 1 −  2 −  = 0

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  2 1 a b 
16. Let A =   be a matrix. If A10 =   then prove that a + d is divisible by 13.
0 3 c d 
(a) 5 (b) 13 (c) 3 (d) 10

17. The number of diagonal matrix A of order n for which A3 = A is

(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2 n (d) 3n

18. If A and B are symmetric matrices of the same order and X = AB + BA and Y = AB − BA , then ( XY ) is equal
T

to:
(a) XY (b) YX (c) –YX (d) none of these

19. If A and B are squares matrices such that A2006 = O and AB = A + B , then det ( B ) equals:
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) –1 (d) none of these
0 x
20. If A =   and A3 + A = O then sum of possible values of xy is:
 y 0
(a) 0 (b) – 1 (c) 1 (d) 2
 i −i   1 −1
21. If A =   and B =   then A8 equals
 −i i   −1 1 
(a) 4B (b) 128B (c) −128B (d) −64B

6 11
22. If matrix A is given by A =   , then the determinant of A
2005
− 6 A2004 is.
 2 4 
(a) 22006 (b) ( −11) 22005 (c) ( −7 ) 22005 (d) ( −9 ) 22004

 1   −1  1  1 
23. A is a 2  2 matrix such that A   =   and A2   =   . the sum of the elements of A is
 −1  2  −1 0
(a) –1 (b) 0 (c) 2 (d) 5

24. Elements of a matrix A of order 10  10 are defined as aij =  i + j (where  is imaginary cube root of unity), then
trace ( A ) of the matrix is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 3 (d) None of these
n
25. If A1 , A2 , A3 ........ A2 n −1 are n skew-symmetric matrices of same order, then, then B =  ( 2r − 1)( A2 r −1 )
2 r −1
will be
r =1

(a) symmetric (b) skew-symmetric

(c) neither symmetric nor skew-symmetric (d) data not adequate

26. Let A and B be two square matrices of the same size such that ABT + BAT = O . If A is a skew-symmetric matrix
then BA is:
(a) A symmetric matrix (b) A skew-symmetric matrix
(c) An orthogonal matrix (d) An invertible matrix

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27. Let A and B be two nonsingular square matrices, AT and BT are the transpose matrices of A and B,
respectively, then which of the following are correct?
(a) BT AB is symmetric matrix if A is symmetric
(b) BT AB is symmetric matrix if B is symmetric
(c) BT AB is skew-symmetric matrix for every matrix A
(d) BT AB is skew-symmetric matrix if A is skew-symmetric
28. If A is symmetric and B is skew-symmetric matrix, then which of the following is/are CORRECT?
(a) ABAT is skew-symmetric matrix
(b) ABT + BAT is symmetric matrix
(c) ( A + B )( A − B ) is skew-symmetric
(d) ( A + I )( B − I ) is symmetric

29. Let A be the 2  2 matrix given by A =  aij  where aij  0,1, 2,3, 4 such that a11 + a12 + a21 + a22 = 4 then which
of the following statement(s) is/are true?
(1) Number of matrices A and such that the trace of A is equal to 4 is 5
(2) Number of matrices A, such that A is invertible is 18
(3) Absolute difference between maximum value and minimum value of det ( A ) is 8
(4) Number of matrices A such that A is either symmetric(or) skew symmetric and det ( A ) is divisible by 2, is 5.

30. If B is an idempotent matrix, and A = I − B , then

(a) A2 = A (b) A2 = I (c) AB = O (d) BA = O
31. If A, B, A + I , A + B are idempotent matrices, then AB is equal to
(a) BA (b) − BA (c) I (d) O
32. If Z is an idempotent matrix, then ( I + Z ) .
n

(a) I + 2n Z (
(b) I + 2n − 1 Z ) (
(c) I − 2n − 1 Z ) (d) none of these
Numeric Answer
3 −4 
33. If A = 
1 −1  then find tr A

(
2012
. )
1 2 3   1 2 2  −1 −2 −2 
34. If A =  2 1 2  B =  −2 −1 −2  and C =  2 1 2  then find the value of tr A + BT + 3C .
   
( )
 2 2 3   2 2 3   2 2 3 

 2 6 8  2 3 5 
 
35. For       R let A =  3  2
9  and B =  2 2 6  . If tr ( A ) = tr ( B ) , then find the value of
   1 2 − 3
 4 5  2  4

( )
 − +  − +  − .

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36. A and B are different matrices of order n satisfying A3 = B 3 and A2 B = B 2 A . If det ( A − B )  0 , then find the

(
value of det A2 + B 2 . )
0   a b 
and ( A + I ) − 50 A =
50
37. Let A =    c d  . Then the value of a + b + c + d is.
0 0   
38. Let A be a matrix of order 3, such that AT A = I .Then find the value of det A2 − I . ( )
(
39. If det ( A − B )  0, A4 = B 4 , C 3 A = C 3 B and B 3 A = A3 B , then find the value of det A3 + B3 + C 3 . )
 2 1  3 4  3 −4 
40. Consider three matrices A=  , B=  , and C=  . Then the value of the sum
 4 1  2 3   −2 3 
 ABC   A ( BC ) 
2
 A ( BC ) 
3
tr ( A ) + tr   + tr   + tr   + .... +  is:
 2  4   8 
   
a b c 
41. Given a matrix A =  b c a  , where a, b, c are real positive number. If abc = 1 and AT A = I , then find the value
 c a b 
of a 3 + b3 + c3 .
0 1  0 
42. A = 
3 0
 ( 11
)
and A6 + A4 + A2 + I V =   (Where I is the 2  2 identity matrix), then the product of all

elements of matrix V is ______

  2 
 tan  sec
 
43. Let A =   and P be a 2  2 matrix such that PP = I , where I is an identity matrix of
T

cot 2013  cos ( 2012 ) 

 2 
order 2. If Q = PAP and R =  rij  = PT Q8 P , then find r11 .
T
22

a b 
44. If   is an idempotent matrix and f ( x ) = x − x 2 and bc = 1/ 4 , then the value of f ( a ) is _________
c 1 − a
 0 1 −1
45. Let X be the solution set of the equation A = I , where A =  4 −3 4  and I is the corresponding unit matrix
x

 3 −3 4 
and x  N , then the minimum value of  ( cos x  + sin x  ) ,   ( 0,  / 2 ) , is ____.
1 2 2   x  0 
46. The equation 1 3 4   y  = 0  has a solution for ( x, y, z ) besides ( 0, 0, 0 ) . Then the value of k is _________
3 4 k   z   0 

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 3 x 2  ( x + 2 ) 2 5x2 2x 
   
47. Let A =  1  , B =  a, b, c  and C =  5 x 2 ( )  be three given matrices, where a, b, c and
2
2x x + 2
6 x   
   2x

( x + 2)
2
5x2 

x  R . Given that tr ( AB ) = tr ( C ) x  R , where tr ( A ) denotes trace of A. If f ( x ) = ax 2 + bx + c , then the value
of f (1) is ______.

48. 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 ______.
l 2 − 3 p 0 
 
49. Let S be the set which contains all possible values of l, m, n, p, q, r for which A =  0 m2 − 8 q  be a
 
 r 0 n2 − 15
nonsingular idempotent matrix. Then the sum of all the elements of the set S is _________.
a 2 1
50. Consider, A =  0 b 0  , where a, b and c are the roots of the equation x3 − 3 x 2 + 2 x − 1 = 0. If matrix B is such
 
 0 −3 c 
that AB = BA, A + B − 2 I  0 and A2 − B 2 = 4 I − 4 B, then find the value of det ( B ) _________.

51. If A is 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 det ( A ) is ______.

52. If A is a square matrix of order 2 and det ( A ) = 10 , then ((tr ( A)) − tr ( A )) is equal to ______.
2 2

53. If A and B are two matrices of order 3 such that AB = O and A2 + B = I , then tr A2 + B 2 is equal to _________.( )
a b c 
54. If a, b and c are integers, then number of matrices A =  b c a  which are possible such that AAT = 1 is ____.
 c a b 

55. Let A =  a ij  be 3  3 matrix and B = bij  be 3  3 matrix such that bij is the sum of the elements of i th row of A
except aij . If det ( A ) = 19 , then the value of det ( B ) is __________.

56. A square matrix M of order 3 satisfies M 2 = I − M , where I is an identity matrix of order 3. If M T = 5 I − 8M ,

then n is equal to _____.
57. Let A =  aij  , B = bij  and C = cij  be any three matrices, where bij = 3i − j aij and cij = 4i − j bij . If
33 33 3 3
det ( A ) = 2 then det ( BC ) is equal to _______.

58. How many different diagonal matrices of order n can be formed which are idempotent?
59. How many different diagonal matrices of order n can be formed which are involuntary?
60. If A and B be n-rowed orthogonal matrices, then show that AB and BA are also orthogonal matrices.

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