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(1) Which ones of the following equations are linear equations in x1 , x2 and x3 ?
√ √
(a) x1 + 5x2 − x3 = 1 (c) πx1 − 2x2 + 13 x3 = 71/3
√ √
(b) x−2
1 + x2 + 8x3 = 5 4− 32
(d) x1 − 3x2 + √5 x3 = 2
(2) The following matrices are the augmented matrices of systems of linear equations in vari-
ables x1 , x2 , . . .. Write down the corresponding systems explicitly and solve them.
(a) (c)
1 0 0 5
1 6 0 0 4 −2
0 1 0 −2 0 0 1 0 3 1
0 0 0 1 5 2
0 0 1 4
0 0 0 0 0 0
(b)
(d)
1 0 0 4 −1 1 2 0 3 0 7
0 1 0 2 6 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 3 2 0 0 0 0 1 2
(3) Solve the following linear systems using Gaussian or Gauss-Jordan (back-substitution) elim-
ination. Write clearly all elementary row operations you used.
(a) (d)
x − 2y + z − 4t = 1
x + y + 2z = 0
x + 3y + 7z + 2t = 2
2x + 4y − 3z = 1
x − 12y − 11z − 16t = 5.
3x + 6y − 5z = 0.
(e)
(b)
2I1 − I2 + 3I3 + 4I4 = 9
2x + 2y + 2z = 0 I1 − 2I3 + 7I4 = 11
−2x + 5y + 2z = 1 3I1 − 3I2 + I3 + 5I4 = 8
8x + y + 4z = −1. 2I1 + I2 + 4I3 + 4I4 = 10.
(f)
(c)
2u − v =0
x + 2y − t + w = 1 −u + 2v − w =0
3y + z − w = 2 − v + 2w − z = 0
z + 7t = 1. − w + 2z= 5.
(4) For which values of a will the following system have no solutions? Exactly one solution?
Infinitely many solutions?
x + 2y − 3z = 4
3x − y + 5z = 2
4x + y + (a2 − 14)z = a + 2.
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(5) Find all values of λ for which the following homogeneous system of linear equations has
infinitely many solutions.
(λ + 2)x1 − 2x2 + x3 = 0
−2x1 + (λ − 1)x2 + 6x3 = 0
x1 + 2x2 + λx3 = 0
(6) Let n ≥ 3. Find the reduced row-echelon form of the n×n matrix