Math203 Tutorial in Weeks 7 & 8

Lecturer: Kai Du
Room: 39C.190
Email: kaid@uow.edu.au
Consultation: Wednesday 2:00pm4:00pm, Friday 9:30am-11:30am

1. Determine whether the following sets form subspace of R3 :

(a) {[x1 , x2 , x3 ]T | x1 + x3 = 1}
(b) {[x1 , x2 , x3 ]T | x1 = x2 = x3 }
(c) {[x1 , x2 , x3 ]T | x1 = x2 + x3 }
(d) {[x1 , x2 , x3 ]T | x1 > 0}
2. Let V and W be subspaces of Rn . Show that
V + W := {v + w | v V, w W }
is also a subspace of Rn .
3. Determine N (A) if

A=

1
5

2
6

3
7

4
8

What is the dimension of N (A)?

4. Given

1
x = 2 ,
3

3
y = 4 ;
2

2
a = 6 ,
6

9
b = 2
5

(a) Is a Span(x, y) ?
(b) Is b Span(x, y) ?
(c) Is Span(x, a) = Span(y, b) ?
5. Determine whether the following vectors are linearly independent:
(a) [1, 1, 1]T , [0, 2, 5]T , [1, 3, 6]T
(b) [1, 1, 2, 4]T , [0, 3, 1, 2]T , [3, 0, 7, 14]T
6. Let v1 , v2 , . . . , vm be linearly independent vectors in Rn . Show that v1 , v2 , . . . , vk are also linearly independent for any k < m.
7. Let v1 , v2 , v3 be vectors in Rn . Show that: v1 , v2 , v3 are linearly independent if and only if v1 + v2 , v2 + v3 ,
v3 + v1 are linearly independent.
8. Given the vectors

3
x = 2 ,
4

3
y = 2 ,
4

(a) What is the dimension of Span(x, y, z) ?

1

6
z = 4 ,
8

2
w= 1
3

(b) What is the dimension of Span(x, y, z, w) ?

(c) Find a basis for Span(x, y, z, w).
9. Show that if U and V are subspaces of Rn and U V = {0}, then
dim(U + V ) = dim U + dim V
10. Let

1
3

x3 =
2
1

2
5

x2 =
4
1

1
2

x1 =
2 ,
3

(a) Show that x1 , x2 , x3 are linearly independent.

(b) Find a vector x4 such that x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 span R4 .
11. Let

1 1
2
2 3
1
1
0 5

1
A= 2
1

(a) What is the rank of A? What is the nullity of A?

(b) Find a basis for R(A).
(c) Find a basis for N (A).
12. Let A be an m n matrix. Show that
rank(A) min{m, n}
13. For each of the choices of A and b that follow, determine the number of solutions fo the system Ax = b.


 
2
1
3
(a) A =
,b=
2 1
1


 
1 4
5
(b) A =
,b=
2 3
5

1 2 3
1
(c) A = 3 2 1 , b = 0
1 2 3
1
14. Let


u1 =

2
3


,

u2 =

1
2


,

v1 =

3
2


,

v2 =

4
3


,

(a) Find the coordinate of x with respect to U = [u1 , u2 ].

(b) Find the transition matrix from U = [u1 , u2 ] to V = [v1 , v2 ].
(c) Find the coordinate of x with respect to V = [v1 , v2 ].
15. Let
p(x) = 4x2 3x + 2
(a) Find the coordinate of p(x) with respect to B1 = [1, x, x2 ].
(b) Find the coordinate of p(x) with respect to B2 = [1 + 2x, x + 2x2 , x2 ].
(c) Find the transition matrix from the ordered basis B1 to the ordered basis B2 .
16. Are the polynomials
1 x + 2x2 ,

2 + 3x + x2 ,

linearly independent?
17. Let U1 and U2 be subspaces of a vector space V .
(a) Show that U1 U2 is a subspace of V .
(b) Is U1 U2 always a subspace of V ? Explain.

1 + 3x + 8x2

x=

2
5