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Mat 1206-Linear Albebra Ii

This document is an examination paper for the course Linear Algebra I at Maasai Mara University for the academic year 2018/2019. It consists of various questions covering topics such as vector operations, linear combinations, matrix properties, and systems of linear equations. Candidates are instructed to answer Question One and any two additional questions from the paper.

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Mat 1206-Linear Albebra Ii

This document is an examination paper for the course Linear Algebra I at Maasai Mara University for the academic year 2018/2019. It consists of various questions covering topics such as vector operations, linear combinations, matrix properties, and systems of linear equations. Candidates are instructed to answer Question One and any two additional questions from the paper.

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MAASAI MARA

UNIVERSITY

REGULAR UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS


2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
FIRST YEAR SECOND SEMESTER

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

COURSE CODE: MAT 1206


COURSE TITLE: LINEAR ALGEBRA I

DATE: 26-4-2019 TIME: 11:00-


13:00HRS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES

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Answer Question ONE and any other TWO questions

This paper consists of THREE printed pages. Please turn over.

QUESTION ONE (30 MARKS)

a) Let u  (1, 3, 4) and v  (3, 4, 7) , find;


i. The angle between u and v . (4 marks)
ii. u
Projection of on . v (2 marks)
iii. A vector orthogonal to both and . u v (3 marks)
b) Determine whether the vectors u  (1,1,1), v  (2,  1,3) and w  (1, 5,3)

are linearly dependent or linearly independent. (6 marks)


c) Find the condition on a, b and c such that w  (a,b,c ) belongs to a space

spanned by the vectors u  (1, 3, 2) and v  (2, 1,1) . (6 marks)


d) Find the basis for the null space and the nullity of the solution space to the
following homogenous system.

2 x  4 y  5 z  3t  0
3x  6 y  7 z  4t  0
5 x  10 y  11z  6t  0 (9 marks)

QUESTION TWO (20 MARKS)


r
a) Find the area of parallelogram with vertices at A (1, 2,3) , (3, 2,5) and
B
r
C (3, 2, 4) . (4 marks)
b) Define linear combination, hence express vector z  (1, 2,5) as a linear

combination of the vectors u  (1,1,1), v  (1, 2,3) and w  (2, 1,1) . (6 marks)
2 2
c) Let the mapping f : � � � be defined by f ( x, y )  ( x, x  y ) , show that
f is a linear mapping. (6 marks)
t 2 4
� 3�
A�
1
� t 1  2 �
�
�
0
� 0 t  4�
�is
d) Determine the values of t for which the matrix
singular. (4 marks)

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QUESTION THREE (20 MARKS)

u  39
a) Determine the value of k  0 such that , where u  (1, k , 2,5) . (4 marks)
�1 2  3 �
�2 1 0�
A � �
�2  1 3�
� �
b) Let �1 4  2 �, find the rank of the matrix A. (4 marks)

1 2�
�
4 3�
� 1 0�
�
A�
3 4�
� �B  � �and C  � � ,
2 1�
� 2 3�
�
�
0 1�
� �
c) For the following matrices show that
the associative law for matrix multiplication holds. (4 marks)
d) Determine the values of k so that the following system in unknowns x, y and z
x y z 1
2 x  3 y  kz  3
x  ky  3 z  2
has;
i. A unique solution?
ii. No solution?
iii. infinitely many? (8 marks)

QUESTION FOUR (20 MARKS)

a) Solve the following system of linear equations by Gauss Jordan elimination.


x1  3x2  2 x3  2 x5  0
2 x1  6 x2  5 x3  2 x4  4 x5  3 x6  1
5 x3  10 x4  15 x6  5
2 x1  6 x2  8 x4  4 x5  18 x6  6 (9 marks)

3 3
b) Verify dimension theorem for the linear transformation T : R � R defined

by T (x, y, z)  (x  2 y  z, y  z, x  y 2 z) . (11 marks)

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