Practice Question with Answer for Lecture # 2

Question # 1
 2 1
Find the transpose of matrix A =  ?
 3 1
Solution:

 2 3
At =  
 1 1
Interchange the rows with columns.

Question # 2

5 2 1 0 
What is the order of given matrix   ?
1 1 1 1 
Solution: Order is 2 × 4

Question # 3

Write the following single column matrix as the sum of three column vectors:
 x2 + x 
 
 3 x + 1 
 9x + e 
2 t
 
Solution:

 x2 + x   x2   x   0  1 1 0

         2    
 3 x + 1   0  +  3 x  +  1 =  0 x +  3 x +  1 
 9 x 2 + et   9 x 2   0   et  9  0  et 
            

Question # 4
  t2 
Find the derivative of the matrix X (t ) = 
 sin t 
.
 

Solution:

 2t 
X ′(t ) =  
 cos t 

Question # 5

3 4
Find, if possible, the multiplicative inverse of the matrix A =  
1 7

Solution:

3 4
A= = 21 − 4 = 17 ≠ 0
1 7
So inverse of A exists.
1
A−1 = Adj ( A)
A
 7 −4 
Adj ( A) =  
 −1 3 
 7 −4   7 −4 
   17 17 
−1 3 
Adj ( A) =
1
=A−1 =  
A 17  −1 3 
 
 17 17 

Question # 6

Find, if possible, the multiplicative inverse of the given matrices

1 2 3
 
1. A =0 4 5
1 0 6
 
Solution:

1 2 3
Solution Since det( A) = 0 4 5 = 1(24 − 0) − 2(0 − 5) + 3(0 − 4) = 24 + 10 − 12 = 22 ≠ 0
1 0 6

Therefore, the given matrix is non-singular. So, the multiplicative inverse A −1 of the matrix A exists.
The cofactors corresponding to the entries in each row are

4 5 2 3 2 3
C11 = = 24, C12 =
− =
−12, C13 = = −2
0 6 0 6 4 5

0 5 1 3 1 3
C21 =
− =
5, C22 = = 3, C23 =
− =
−5
1 6 1 6 0 5

0 4 1 2 1 2
C31 = = −4, C32 =
− =
2, C33 = = 4
1 0 1 0 0 4

 24 −12 −2   12 −6 −1 
 22   11 11 
 24 −12 −2   22 22
 
11

1   −5   5 −5 
3 −5  = 
5 3 3
Hence A −1 =  5 =
22   22 22 22   22 22 22 
 −4 2 4     
 −4 2 4   −2
 
1 2 

 22 22 22   11 11 11 

 1 2 3
 
2. A = 4 5 6
5 7 9
 

Solution

1 2 3
Since det( A) = 4 5 6 = 1(45 − 42) − 2(36 − 30) + 3(28 − 25) = 3 − 12 + 9 = 0
5 7 9
Hence inverse does not exist.
 Question # 7

3 5  0 1
For the matrices A =   and B =   , evaluate BA?
1 1  4 1
Solution:

 0 1   3 5   0 × 3 + 1× 1 0 × 5 + 1× 1   1 1 
=BA =    =   
 4 1   1 1   4 × 3 + 1× 1 4 × 5 + 1× 1   13 21 

Question # 8

1 2 3 1 1
   
=
For the matrices A = 4 5 6 and B
  0 1  , evaluate AB?
7 8 9 1 1 
  
Solution:

 4 6 
=  10
AB 15 
 24 
 16

Question # 9

1 6 5 0
 7  and B= 3
= 3
For the matrices A
 0  , evaluate AB?
5 9  1 0 
 
Solution:

Multiplication is not possible as number of columns of first matrix is not equal to the number of rows of
second matrix.