R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL METHODS
(21MA21)
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 2 2 
 2  1 0 1 
3) A   
 2 0 4 2 
 
12 3 9 3 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

1 5 4 
A  0 3 2  is 2
b 13 10 
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 

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

Answer: rank of A=2, rank of B=1, rank of (A+B)=2, rank of (AB)=0, rank of (BA)=1.
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL METHODS
(21MA21)
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
𝑥1 + 2𝑥2 + 𝑥3 = 2
3𝑥1 + 𝑥2 − 2𝑥3 = 1
4𝑥1 − 3𝑥2 − 𝑥3 = 3
2𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 = 4
Answer: Consistent. 𝑥1 = 1, 𝑥2 = 0, 𝑥3 = 1.

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
4𝑥1 + 9𝑥2 + 𝑥3 = 0
𝑘𝑥1 + 3𝑥2 + 𝑘𝑥3 = 0
𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 = 0
Answer: 𝑘 = 1, 𝑥1 = 2𝑘, 𝑦 = −𝑘, 𝑧 = 𝑘.

4. Investigate the values of 𝜆 and 𝜇 so that the equations

2x+3y+5z=9
7x+3y-2z=8
2x+3y+ 𝜆 z= 𝜇
have (a) Unique solution (b) Infinite number of Solutions (c) No Solution
Answer: (a) 𝜆 ≠ 5 (b) 𝜆 = 5, 𝜇 = 9 (c) 𝜆 = 5, 𝜇 ≠ 9

5. Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method

x-2y+3z=2
3x-y+4z=4
2x+y-2z=5
11 7
Answer: 𝑥 = 5 , 𝑦 = − 5, 𝑧 = −1

6. Solve the system of equations by Gauss elimination method

6𝑥1 − 2𝑥2 + 2𝑥3 + 4𝑥4 = 16
12𝑥1 − 8𝑥2 + 6𝑥3 + 10𝑥4 = 26
3𝑥1 − 13𝑥2 + 9𝑥3 + 3𝑥4 = −19
−6𝑥1 + 4𝑥2 + 𝑥3 − 18𝑥4 = −34
Answer: 𝑥1 = 3, 𝑥2 = 1, 𝑥3 = −2, 𝑥4 = 1.

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 R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL METHODS
(21MA21)
UNIT-1
ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
TUTORIAL SHEET-3

1. Solve the following system of equations by Gauss –Jordan method

2x+y+z=10
3x+2y+3z=18
x+4y+9z=16
Answer: x=7, y=-9, z=5.
2 3 4
2. Find the inverse of a matrix A=[4 3 1] using Gauss-Jordan method.
1 2 4
4 9
−2 5 5
4 14
Answer: 𝐴−1 = 3 −5 − 5
1 6
[−1 5 5 ]

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
11 −4 −7
4. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix 𝐴 = [ 7 −2 −5].
10 −4 −6
1 1 2
Answer: 𝜆 = 0,1,2 and 𝑋1 = [1] , 𝑋2 = [−1] , 𝑋3 = [1]
1 2 2

5 −2 0
5. Find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix 𝐴 = [−2 6 2].
0 2 7
2 2 1
Answer: 𝜆 = 3,6,9 and 𝑋1 = [ 2 ] , 𝑋2 = [−1] , 𝑋3 = [−2]
−1 2 −2
2 −3
6. The sum and product of the eigenvalues of the matrix 𝐴 = [ ] are
4 −2
Answer: 0 and 8.
8 −6 2
7. If two eigenvalues of [−6 7 −4] are 3 and 15, then the third eigenvalue is
2 −4 3
__________.
Answer: 0
2 1
8. If 𝐴 = [ ], then the eigenvalues of 𝐴−1 are
1 2
1
Answer: 1 and 3.

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 R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(An autonomous institution affiliated to VTU, Belgaum)
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND NUMERICAL METHODS
(21MA21)
UNIT-1
ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA

TUTORIAL SHEET-4

1. Find the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the matrix
1 −3 2
𝐴 = [4 4 −1] by Rayleigh power method. (Perform 5 iterations)
6 3 5
0.341
Answer:𝐴𝑋 (4) = 6.941 [0.039]
1

2. Find the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of the matrix

6 −2 2
𝐴 = [−2 3 −1] by Rayleigh power method taking initial eigenvector as
2 −1 3

[1 1 1]𝑇 . (Perform 5 iterations)

0.341
Answer: 𝐴𝑋 (4) = 6.941 [0.039]
1

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