Check Your Concepts of Matrix
Check Your Concepts of Matrix
so that
PY + WY will be defined.
(ii) If X m3 Yp4 = Z 2b . Find m, p and b.
2. If A is 3 4 a matrix and B is a matrix such that AT B and BAT are both defined, then find the order of B.
3. Show that if A and B are square matrices such that AB = BA, then ( A + B ) = A2 + 2 AB + B 2 .
2
1 − 1 a 1
and ( A + B ) = A + B , then find the value of a and b.
2 2 2
4. If A = and B =
2 − 1 b − 1
i 0 i 2
5. If +X = − X , then X equals?
3 − i 3 4 + i
6. If A = aij is a square matrix such that aij = i 2 − j 2 , then check whether A is symmetric or skew- symmetric
matrix.
7. If matrix A = aij , where aij = 1, if i j and aij = 0, if i = j , then A2 equals?
22
8. Write a 3 3 skew- symmetric matrix.
9. Write a 2 2 matrix which is both symmetric and skew- symmetric matrix.
10. The inverse of skew- symmetric matrix of odd order is? Give reason to support your answer.
11. If A is a 3 3 skew-symmetric matrix, then trace and determinant of A is equals? Give reason to support your
answer.
3 a − 1 d 3 a
12. If A = 2 5 c is symmetric and B = b − a e − 2b − c is skew-symmetric, find a, b, c, d , e and f. If AB a
b 8 2 −2 6 − f
symmetric, skew- symmetric or neither of them. Justify your answer.
13. If A is a skew-symmetric matrix, then show that A2 is a symmetric matrix.
14. Let A = aij be diagonal matrix whose diagonal elements are different and B = bij is some another
nn nn
a b p 0
30. Let A = and B = such that AB = B and a + d = 5050. find the value of ( ad − bc ) .
c d q 0