TUTORIAL

CHAPTER 1: MATRICES & SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATION

1.1 Definition & Types of Matrices
1. What is the order of the following matrices?

1 2  9
 0 4 6 3 13 
(a) 15 35 (b)  4 0 (c)   (d)  
  8 7   6 

 1
 5 8  3 
 
2. Let A   1 2 0  . Find the element of:
12 7 9 
 
 

(a) (b) (c) (d)

3. The table shows the result of top four Football Team Win Draw Loss
football teams are as follow. Create a Arsenal 17 8 5
matrix for the top four football teams. Manchester City 16 9 7
Chelsea 19 7 3

2i  j i  j
4. Given A  aij  . Find matrix if aij   2
33
 i j i j

5. Create the matrix as the following.

(a) Matrix [ ] if .
2m  n, m  n

(b) Matrix [ ] for bmn   mn, mn
m  2n, m  n

6. Match the matrices below corresponding to its type.

0 4 7   Diagonal Matrix
1 6
5  
0 
Column Matrix

1 0 0
0 1 0 
  Square Matrix
0 0 1 
6 
8  
   Null Matrix
8 
3 4 3
0 1 2  
   Row Matrix
0 0 2
1 0 0 
0 0 0 
   Lower Triangular Matrix
0 0 9 
0 0
0  
0 
Identity Matrix

 2 0 0
1 3 0 
  Upper Triangular Matrix
 1 7 1 

1.2 Operation on Matrices

1. Solve the following.

8 3 9  2 0 4
    30 50  10 70
(a) 70 40   20 20 (e) 2 2 6  6
1
9 (i)  3 9    6 4 
 3   3     
0 1 12  5 8 1 
  
 2   4  8 6  2 9
 11  6   x 6  2 y 6  3
(b)     (f)  2 y 6   y 3  (j)  4   1 4
 2  5      10 7   12 2
 8 1   1 4  5 8 3   2 2 3
7  6  2
(c)
 3 9    3 6 
    (g) 9    4  (k)  1 0    4 6 1 
 5 11 11 19      9 6 4  2 8 0 
 1   1 
7   2 p 5 
7 2 8  5 2 3 6 3 9  1 6 2
p
(d)
   
(h) (l)  3 q  2   2 q 
   
 20 7 3  3 9 2
2. Express each of the following as a single matrix.

10   2  5 
 20   7    9  3 4  2 5 3 0 
(a)       (b) 0 2    3 6  1 6
30  10   10      

 2 3 1 9 8 0 0 3 7 
3. Given that A   4 6 2 , B   4 6 1  and C  6 7 4  . Show that
   
 3 7 7   2 5 8 8 1 9 

(a) (b) ( ) ( )

4. Find the value of and for each matrix equation.

 3x    x   10   2 x 0   3x 2  20 2

(a)  2 y    3 y    10 (b)  6 3   9 5 y    3 3 y 
           

5. Find the multiplication of each of the following.

1   8 6 12
  0.2 1
20 3 2 
1 
(a) 3  4 5 (b) 5 5 (c)
 2    2
 6 2   22 15 4 

 2 1  1 4 7 0 
6. Given that A    , B  and C    . Calculate the following.
 3 6  0 2 3 1

(a) (b) (c) (d) ( )

1 2 3
 2 5 4  
7. Given that A    and B  3 2 1  . Find .
 1 7 5  5 4 0 

 3 1 2 1
3 4
8. Let A   4 0  , B   1 2 and C  
  . Find,
 2 2
 2 1   1 1 

(a) (b) (c) ( ) (d) ( )

1.3 Determinant of Matrices

 2 4 2
1. Given A   2 0 4  . Find,
 4 3 3

(a) and (b) and (c) and (d) and

 2 5 1 
2. Find the determinant of A   3 0 1  by using expansion of the cofactors.
 2 5 4

(a) Expansion along row. (b) Expansion along column.

1 2 4 
3. Find the determinant of P  5 3 0  by expanding along
8 7 6 

(a) row. (b) column.

 2 3 1
4. Find the determinant of Q   0 2 4  .
 2 5 6 