Department of Economics School of Business American University in Cairo Exercise 1 Linear Models and Matrix Algebra

A. El-Shazly Econ 316

This exercise is from Chiang, A. and Wainwright, K., Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005), Ch. 4, Exc. 4.2. 8 3 0 4 7 1 1. Given A = , B = 3 2 , and C = 6 1 , find 6 9 (a) A + B , (b) C A , (c) 3 A , (d) 4 B + 2C 2 8 2 0 8 3 2. Given A = 3 0, B = , and C = 6 1 3 8 5 1 (a) Is AB defined? Calculate AB . Can you calculate BA ? Why? (b) Is BC defined? Calculate BC . Is CB defined? If so, calculate CB . Is it true that BC = CB ? 3 1 2 0 1 / 5 3 / 10 1 0 3 , and B = 1 1 / 5 3. Given A = 7 / 10 4 0 2 0 2 / 5 1 / 10 (a) Is AB defined? If so, calculate AB . (b) Is BA defined? If so, calculate BA . Is AB = BA ? 4. Find the product matrices in the following. In each case, append beneath every matrix a dimension indicator. 0 2 0 8 0 4 1 3 0 4 0 1 , (b) 6 5 1 5 2 (a) 1 0 4 0 1 2 3 0 3 5 x 7 0 3 5 0 (c) y , (d) [a b c ] 0 2 4 2 7 z 1 4