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This document contains 9 questions regarding linear algebra concepts such as finding distances and points in vector space, calculating areas and volumes using vectors, finding projections of vectors, determining if sets are subspaces, checking linear independence, finding bases and dimensions of subspaces, writing vectors as linear combinations, and finding bases and properties of a matrix. The questions cover topics like planes, parallelepipeds, subspaces, linear independence, orthogonal bases, row and column spaces, and rank.

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Assignment 3

This document contains 9 questions regarding linear algebra concepts such as finding distances and points in vector space, calculating areas and volumes using vectors, finding projections of vectors, determining if sets are subspaces, checking linear independence, finding bases and dimensions of subspaces, writing vectors as linear combinations, and finding bases and properties of a matrix. The questions cover topics like planes, parallelepipeds, subspaces, linear independence, orthogonal bases, row and column spaces, and rank.

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ASSIGNMENT 3
Course: Mathematics for Engineering

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Question 1. Find the shortest distance from the point P (3, 1, −1) to the plane with
equation 2x + y − z = 6. Also find the point Q on this plane closest to P.

Question 2. a) Find the area of the triangle with the vertices A(3, −1, 2), B(1, 1, 0), and
C(1, 2, −1).

b) Find the volume of the parallelepiped determined by u, v, and w when

u = [2, 1, 1]T , v = [1, 0, 2]T , w = [2, 1, −1]T .

Question 3. Let →
−
u = [a, −1, 3], →
−
v = [0, 4, 1], and →
−
w = [2, 1, −2]. Find the projection
of →
−
u ×→
−v on →
−
w.
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Question 4. Which of the following sets are subspaces of R3 ?



(a) U = (1, s, t) | s, t ∈ R .

(b) U = (0, 2s, −t) | s, t ∈ R .

(c) U = (r, 3s, r − 2) | r, s ∈ R .

(d) U = (2r, −s2 , t) | r, s, t ∈ R .

(e) U = (r, s, t) | 3r − 2s + t = 0 .

(f) U = (x, y, z) | x − y + 5z = 2 .

(g) U = (a, b, a3 ) | a, b ∈ R .

(h) U = (0, |a|, b) | a, b ∈ R .

(i) U = (x, y, z) | x − 2y + z = 0, x + y − 2z = 0 .

(k) U = (r, 0, s) | r2 + s2 = 0 .

Question 5. Find all values of x such that the set


[1, −1, 1], [−2, x, −1], [1, 1, x]

is linearly independent.

Question 6. Find a basis and calculate the dimension of the subspace U of R4 .



a) U = span [1, 2, −1, 0], [−2, 0, 3, 1], [−2, 8, 5, 3], [−1, 2, 2, 1] .
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b) U = X = [a − b, b + c, a, b + c] | a, b, and c in R .

Question 7. Find the numbers a, b, and c such that the following set is orthogonal.


[1, 2, 1, 0], [1, −1, 1, 3], [2, −1, 0, −1], [a, b, c, 1] .

Question 8. Write X as a linear combination of the orthogonal basis of the subspace U,


where

X = [14, 1, −8, 5], and U = span [2, −1, 0, 3], [2, 1, −2, −1] .
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Question 9. Let  
1 −1 2 5 −2
 
 2 −2 1 −2 5 
 
A= .
0 −3 −12 9 
 
0
 
−1 1 1 7 −7
Find bases for the row and column spaces of A and determine: rank (A), dim (col (A)),
dim (row (A)), dim (im (A)), dim (null (A)).

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