R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
FUNDAMENTALS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA, CALCULUS & NUMERICAL
METHODS (MAT211TA)
UNIT-1: ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
TUTORIAL SHEET-1
I. Objective type questions:
1. If A is a 3 4 matrix then rank of A cannot exceed ____________.
2. Rank of the matrix 1 0 0 0 is __________.
0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0
3. Rank of identity matrix of order 4 is ___________ .
4. If the rank of the transpose matrix A is 3 then the rank of matrix A is _________.
5. Rank of singular matrix of order 5 is_________________.
II. Find the rank of the following matrices
1 2 3 4
2 3 1 2
1) A
3 4 5 8
Answer: rank of A=2
1 3 10 14
1 1 1 3
2) A 2 2 6 8
3 5 7 3
Answer: rank of A=2
1 0 22
2 1 01
3) A
2 0 42
12 3 93 Answer: rank of A=4
4) Find the values of k such that the rank of the matrix A is 3, where
1 2 1 3
4 1 2 1
A
3 1 1 2
Answer: k=1
1 2 0 k
5) For which value of b the rank of the matrix
[ ]
b=2.
6) Find the rank of A, B, A+B, BA and AB if
1 1 1 1 2 1
A 2 3 4 and B 6 12 6
3 2 3 5 10 5
Answer: rank of A=2, rank of B=1, rank of (A+B)=2, rank of (AB)=0, rank of (BA)=1.
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R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
FUNDAMENTALS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA, CALCULUS & NUMERICAL
METHODS (22MA11A)
UNIT-1: ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
TUTORIAL SHEET-2
1. Test the consistency of the following system of equations
2x+6y=-11
6x+20y-6z=-3
6y-18z=-1
Answer: Inconsistent
2. Test the consistency of the following system and solve if the system is consistent
Answer: Consistent. .
3. Find the value of k such that the following system of equations posses a non-trivial
solution. Also find the solution of the system
Answer:
4. Investigate the values of and so that the equations
2x+3y+5z=9
7x+3y-2z=8
2x+3y+ z=
have (a) Unique solution (b) Infinite number of Solutions (c) No Solution
Answer: (a) (b) (c)
5. Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method
x-2y+3z=2
3x-y+4z=4
2x+y-2z=5
Answer: , ,
6. Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method
Answer: .
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R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
FUNDAMENTALS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA, CALCULUS & NUMERICAL
METHODS (22MA11A)
UNIT-1: ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
TUTORIAL SHEET-3
1. Solve the following system of equations by Gauss –Jordon method
2x+y+z=10
3x+2y+3z=18
x+4y+9z=16
Answer: x=7, y=-9, z=5.
2. Find the inverse of a matrix A=[ ] using Gauss-Jordan method.
Answer:
[ ]
3. Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method
9x+2y+4z=20
x+10y+4z=6
2x-4y+10z=-15
Answer: x=2.7372, y=0.9872, z=-1.6525
4. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix [ ].
Answer: and [ ] [ ] [ ]
5. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix [ ].
Answer: and [ ] [ ] [ ]
6. The sum and product of the eigenvalues of the matrix [ ] are
Answer: 0 and 8.
7. If two eigenvalues of [ ] are 3 and 15, then the third eigenvalue is
__________.
Answer: 0
8. If [ ], then the eigenvalues of are
Answer: 1 and .
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R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
FUNDAMENTALS OF LINEAR ALGEBRA, CALCULUS & NUMERICAL
METHODS (22MA11A)
UNIT-1: ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
TUTORIAL SHEET-4
1. Find the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the matrix
[ ] by Rayleigh power method. (Perform 5 iterations)
Answer: [ ]
2. Find the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the matrix
[ ] by Rayleigh power method taking initial eigenvector as
[ ] (Perform 5 iterations)
Answer: [ ]
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