KUWAIT UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Tutorial 2 2008

Exercises 1.6
22. Find all solutions to the given linear system

(a) 2x − y + z = 3
x − 3y + z = 4
−5x − 2z = −5

(b) x + y + z + w = 6
2x + y − z = 3
3x + y + 2w = 6

(c) 2x − y + z = 3
3x + y − 2z = −2
x−y+z = 7
x + 5y + 7z = 13
x − 7y − 5z = 12

(d) x + 2y − z = 0
2x + y + z = 0
5x + 7y + z = 0

23-24. Find all values of a for which the resulting linear system has

(a) no solution .

(b) a unique solution

(c) infinitly many solutions.

(23)x + y − z = 2
x + 2y + z = 3
2
x+y + (a − 5)z = a

(24) x + y + z = 2
2x + 3y + 2z = 5
2x + 3y + (a2 − 1)z = a + 1

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T.11. Let u and v be solutions to the homogeneous linear system Ax = 0

(a) Show that u + v is a solution.

(b) Show that u − v is a solution.

(c) For any scalar r, show that ru is a solution.

(d) For any scalar r and s, show that ru + sv is a solution.

T.12. Show that if u and v are solutions to the linear system Ax = b then u − v is a solution
to the associated homogeneous system Ax = 0.

Drill
1. Answer true or false give a reason of your answer

(a) If C is an 9 × 7 matrix, then C T C = CC T

(b) If A is an n × n summetric skew symmetric matrix then A = O2 .
(c) The product of two scalar matrices is a scalar matrices.
(d) The product of a lower triangular matrix and a scalar matrix is a lower matrix.
(e) If H = In − 2wwT , where w is an n × m matrix. Show that H is symmetric.
∙ ¸ ∙ ¸
a b 2 −2 −1
2. Let C = , such that CA = A; where A = ;
c d 3 −1 1
∙ ¸ ∙ ¸
2 −3 −1 1 1 2
3. Let A = and B = ; Express the thirs column of B T A as
3 −1 1 0 −4 −5
linear combination of columns of B T
∙ ¸
1 a
4. Let A = , where a 6= 0. Find reak numbers x and y such that A4 + xA2 + yA2 =
0 1
O2 .