Maths Worksheet

Topic: Determinants

MCQ corner 8. The value of

is
4.2 Determinant
1. Evaluate the determinant independent of
(a) (b)
(c) (d) none of these
(a) (b) 12
(c) (d) 6 9. If is a complex root of the equation

,
Direction (2-5) : Evaluate the following
determinants. then
(a) 1 (b) -1
(c) -2 (d) 2
2.
(a) (b) 10. If , then
(c) (d)
3.
(a) 0 (b) 1
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
(c) 2 (d) 3
4. 11. If , then value

(a) 0 (b) 5 of is
(c) 3 (d) 7 (a) 2 (b) -2
(c) 4 (d) -4
5.
(a) 12. If , then value of is
(b)
(c) (a)
(d) (b)
6. If , then is equal to (c)
(d)
(a) 8 (b) 4
(c) (d) 2
13. Let , then the value of is
7. If and if , then
the values of are (a)
(b)
(a) (b)
(c)
(c) (d) (d)
14. The value of the determinant (b)
(c)
(d)

(a) 22. If and

(b)
(c)
(d) , then

(a) (b)
15.
(c) (d)
(a)
23. If , then value of is :
(b)
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these (a)
(b)
16. is equal to (c)
(d) 0
(a)
(b)
24.
(c)
(d) (a) 0 (b) 1
17. The roots of the equation (c) 2 (d) 3

are 25.
(a) 1,2 (b)
(c) (d) (a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) 3
18. If , then the value of is
26.
equal to
(a) 0 (b) 36
(c) 64 (d) 3600 (a)

19. If and
(b)
, then the value of is
(c)
(a) -3 (b) 3 (d) All of these
(c) 2 (d) -8
27. If are in A.P., then
20. Let . Then

is equal to (a) 0
(a) -18 (b) 54 (b)
(c) -72 (d) 72 (c)
21. Find the value of the determinant (d)

. 4.3 Area of a Triangle

(a)
28. Find the area of the triangle with vertices 36. If the points are
, and . collinear, then find the value of .
(a) 21 sq. units (a) 2 (b) 3
(b) 35 sq. units (c) 4 (d) 5
(c) 30 sq. units 37. Using determinants, find the equation of the
(d) 40 sq. units line joining the points and .
29. If and are the (a) (b)
vertices of an equilateral triangle whose (c) (d)
38. The points and are
each side is equal to , then is collinear if
(a) (b)
equal to (c) (d)
(a) (b)
4.4 Minors and Cofactors
(c) (d)
39. Find the minor of of the matrix
30. A triangle has its three sides equal to
and . If the coordinates of its vertices are
, and , then
(a) 5 (b) 6
is equal to (c) 7 (d) 8
40. Find the minor of the element of second
(a) row and third column in the following

(b) determinant .
(c) (a) 13 (b) 4
(c) 5 (d) 0
(d)
41. If , then write the minor of
31. The points and
are collinear, if the element .
(a) (b) (a) 7 (b) -7
(c) (d) (c) 4 (d) 8
32. If the points and 42. Find the cofactors of elements
are collinear, then respectively of the matrix
(a)
(b) .
(c)
(d) (a)
(b)
33. If the points and are
(c)
collinear, then find the value of .
(d)
(a) 4 (b)
(Page 84 )
(c) 47 (d)
Direction (43-48) : Write the cofactors of each
34. Find the area of the triangle whose vertices
element of the first column of the following
are and .
matrices.
(a) 30 sq. units (b) 35 sq. units
(c) 40 sq. units (d) 15.5 sq. units
43.
35. If the area of a triangle , with vertices
, and is 3 sq. units,
(a)
then the value of is
(a) 2 (b) 3 (b)
(c) 4 (d) 5 (c)
 (d) None of these (a) 0 (b) 5
(c) 10 (d) -5
44. 53. Find the cofactors of the element of third
row and second column of the following
(a) (b)
(c) (d) determinant

45. (a) (b)

(c) (d)
(a) (bg-hf), (ch - fg), 1
(b) 4.5 Adjoint and Inverse of a Matrix
(c)
54. If , then adj is equal
(d)
to
46.
(a)
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
(b)
47.

(a) (b) (c)

(c) (d)
(d) None of these
48.
(a) (b) 2,1 55. If , then adj is equal to
(c) (d)
49. Find cofactors of and of the matrix (a)

(b)
(a) (b)
(c) 16,8 (d)
50. Find the minor of 6 and cofactor of 4 (c)
respectively in the determinant
(d) None of these
. Find the adjoint of the matrix .

(a) 6,6 (b) (a) (b)

(c) (d)
(c) (d)
51. If is the cofactor of the element of the

determinant , then write the 57. If , then find adj .

value of
(a) 110 (b) 22 (a)
(c) -110 (d) -22
52. If denotes the cofactor of the element (b)

of the determinant , then

value of is
 64. Determine the values of for which the
(c)
matrix is

(d) singular.
(a) 0
58. Find the adjoint of the matrix , where (b)
(c)
(d) All of these

(a) 65. For what value of , matrix

is a
singular matrix?
(b) (a) 1 (b) 2
(c) -1 (d) -2
(c) 66. For what value of
(d) None of these is a
singular matrix?
59. The matrix is non-singular (a) -2 (b) -3
(c) -1 (d) 0
(a) for all real values of
67. If , then adj
(b) only when
(a) (b)
(c) only when (c) (d) both (a) and (c)
(d) only when
68. If , then find .
60. If is singular, then the value of
(a) (b)
is (c) (d)
(a) (b) 69. If for any square matrix ,
(c) (d)
, then the value of is
61. Find , if is singular. (a) -8 (b) 8
(c) 4 (d) 2
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 4 70. If , then find .
62. Find the value of for which the matrix

is singular. (a)

(a) 0,1 (b) 1,3

(c) 0,3 (d) 3,2 (b)

63. If is a singular matrix, (c)

then value of is
(a) (b) (d)
(c) (d)
71. Compute
 (b)
if and
(c)

(d)
77. If for the non-singular matrix , then
(a) find .
(a) (b)
(c) O (d) None of these
(b)
78. If is a square matrix of order 3 such that
, find .
(c) (a) 8 (b) 4
(c) 2 (d) None of these
(d) 79. If is an invertible square matrix of order 3
and , then find the value of .
(a) 125 (b) 25
72. If , find (c) 5 (d) 30
(a)
80. If , then the value of
(b)
is
(c) (a) 64 (b) 16
(c) 0 (d) -8
(d)

4.6 Applications of Determinants and

73. If , then Matrices
(a) (b)
(c) (d) 81. If the system of equations
, has no
74. If and , then solution, then
find . (a) (b)
(c) (d)
(a)
82. If the equations
(b) ,
are consistent, then
(c) (a) 1 (b)
(d) (c) 3 (d) None of these
83. A non-trivial solution of the system of
75. If , then find equations
is
(a) (a) (b)
(b) (c) (d)
84. If
(c) , then
(a) 1 (b) 3
(d) (Page 90)
(c) -2 (d) 2
76. Find a matrix such that 85. If
. , then
(a) 1 (b) -1
(a) (c) 2 (d) -2
86. If Three types of foods and are
, then available. 1 unit of food contains 3 units
(a) 1 (b) 2 of vitamin A, 2 units of vitamin B, 1 unit of
(c) -2 (d) does not exist vitamin C. 1 unit of food contains 1 unit
87. Suppose that system of equations of vitamin A, 2 units of vitamin B and 1 unit
has of vitamin C. 1 unit of food contains 5
non-trivial solution. Then units of vitamin units of vitamin and
2 units of vitamin C. Represent the above
(a) 2 (b) -1 situation algebraically and find the diet
(c) 0 (d) 1 contains each types of food by using matrix
method.
88. If are non-zero numbers, then the (a) (b)
system of equations
(c) (d)
,
has a non-trivial solution if 94. The sum of three numbers is 6 . If we
(a) multiply the third number by 2 and add the
(b) first number to the result, we get 7 . By
(c) adding second and third numbers to three
(d) None of these times the first number, we get 12
Find the numbers
89. If the equations (a) (b)
and has non- (c) (d)
trivial solution, then
(a) 95. Solve the system of equations
(b) , and .
(c) (a)
(d) (c)
(b)
90. If and the system of equations (d)
. and
has nontrivial solution, 96. Solve the following system of equations
then the possible real values of are and
.
(a)
(a)
(b) (b)
(c)
(c) (d)
(d) None of these 97. The system of linear equations
91. If the system of linear equations . has a
, and unique solution, if is not equal to
has a non-zero solution, (a) 4 (b) -4
then (c) 0 (d) 3
(a) are in A.P 98. Consider the system of equations
(b) are in G.P.
(c) are in A.G.P.
(d) satisfy ,If ,

92. For what value of the following system of then the system has
linear equations will have infinite solutions?
(a) more than two solutions
and
(b) one trivial and one non-trivial solution
(c) no solution
(a) (b)
(c) (d) (d) only trivial solution
93. A diet is to contain 30 units of vitamin 99. The system of equations
units of vitamin B and 20 units of vitamin C. has
a solution other than , then
 is equal to
(a) 1 (b) 2
(c) 3 (d) 5
100. If the system of equations
has
non-trivial solution. then the value of is
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
 NCERT Exemplar Problems (a) (b)
This includes MCQs of 'NCERT Exemplar
Problems' Book. (c) (d)

1. If , then value of is
9. If , then
(a) 3 (b)
(c) (d) 6 (a) (b)
2. The value of determinant (c) (d)

is 10. If , then exists if

(a) (a) (b)

(b) (c) (d) None of these
(c) 11. If and are invertible matrices, then
(d) None of these which of the following is not correct?
3. The area of a triangle with vertices (a) adj
and is 9 sq. units. The
(b)
value of will be
(a) 9 (b) 3 (c)
(c) -9 (d) 6 (d)
4. The determinant 12. If are all different from zero and

equals , then value of

(a) is
(a) (b)
(b)
(c) (d) -1
(c)
13. The value of the determinant
(d) None of these
5. The number of distinct real roots of is

in the interval (a) (b)

(c) (d)
is 14. There are two values of which makes
(a) 0 (b) 2
(c) 1 (d) 3 determinant. , then
6. If and are angles of a triangle, then
sum of these numbers is
the determinant (a) 4 (b) 5
(c) -4 (d) 9
(a) 0 (b) -1
(c) 1 (d) None of these

7. Let , then

is equal to
(a) 0 (b) -1
(c) 2 (d) 3
8. The maximum value of

is ( is real

number)
 Exam Archive 8. If , then the determinant of
the matrix is
1. Let be matrix with and (a) -175 (b) 2014
. Then the (c) 2016 (d) -25
sum of the diagonal elements of can be
(a) -1 (b) 2 9. If , then adj is
(c) 1 (d) equal to
2. Let and be two matrices such that (a) (b)
and . Then
(c) (d)
is equal to
(a) 16 (b) 32
10. If
(c) 64 (d) 128
3. The number of for which the and , then is equal to
system of linear equations (a) 729 (b) 243
(c) 891 (d) 27
11. If and adj , then
has no solution, is : is equal to
(a) 6 (b) 7 (a) -1 (b) 5
(c) 8 (d) 9 (c) 4 (d) 13
4. Let be a matrix with real entries 12. If is a matrix such that
such that , where , then is equal to
. If , then the sum of (a) (b)
all possible values of is equal to
(c) (d)
(a) 0 (b)
13. The number of real values of for which the
(c) (d) 2
system of linear equations
5. Let be a matrix of order and , has
. Then infinitely many solutions, is
is equal to (a) 0 (b) 1
(c) 2 (d) 3
__________ .
(a) (b) 14. The system of linear equations
(c) (d) , has a non-
trivial solution for
6. If the system of equation
(a) infinitely many values of
and
(b) exactly one value of
has infinitely many solution, then is (c) exactly two values of
equal to (d) exactly three values of
(a) 8 (b) 36
(c) 44 (d) 48 15. Let and where
7. If the system of linear equations
. Then a value of is
(a) 5 (b) 9
(c) 17 (d) 3
16. If the system of linear equations
where , has no solution, then
(a) (b)
(c) (d)
has a non-zero solutions , then is
equal
 (a) 30 (b) -10 where are distinct real numbers such
(c) 10 (d) -30
that the matrix is singular.
17. The values of , for which
Then, the value of
,
is
(a) 6 (b) 3
(a) (b)
(c) 9 (d) 12
(c) (d)
20. Let be a matrix such that
18. Let and be two invertible matrices of
order . If and and
, then is equal
to . If and ,
(a) 1 (b) 16 then the ordered pair, is equal to
(c) (d) (a) (b)
19. Let be a root of the equation
(c) (d)
 Answer key
MCQ corner

Questio Answer Questio Answer Questio Answer Questio Answer Questio Answer
n no key n no key n no key n no key n no key
1 a 21 b 41 a 61 d 81 c
2 b 22 d 42 a 62 c 82 b
3 b 23 d 43 a 63 b 83 d
4 a 24 a 44 c 64 d 84 d
5 d 25 a 45 b 65 b 85 c
6 c 26 d 46 a 66 a 86 d
7 d 27 a 47 d 67 d 87 d
8 a 28 b 48 b 68 b 88 a
9 c 29 b 49 a 69 b 89 a
10 c 30 c 50 d 70 a 90 c
11 b 31 c 51 a 71 a 91 a
12 d 32 a 52 a 72 a 92 c
13 d 33 d 53 b 73 a 93 a
14 b 34 d 54 c 74 a 94 a
15 c 35 a 55 a 75 b 95 a
16 d 36 d 56 b 76 a 96 b
17 b 37 a 57 a 77 a 97 c
18 d 38 a 58 b 78 a 98 a
19 a 39 c 59 c 79 b 99 d
20 c 40 a 60 d 80 a 100 c

NCERT Exemplar Problems

Question no Answer key Question no Answer key Question no Answer key
1 c 6 a 11 d
2 c 7 a 12 d
3 b 8 a 13 b
4 d 9 c 14 c
5 c 10 d

Exam Archive
Question Question Question Question Answer key
no Answer key no Answer key no Answer key no
1 b 6 c 11 b 16 c
2 c 7 b 12 a 17 c
3 b 8 d 13 b 18 c
4 c 9 a 14 d 19 b
5 a 10 a 15 a 20 a