Math203 Tutorial in Weeks 4 & 5

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

1. Let

2
A= 6
4

1
4
1

1
5
3

(a) Find elementary matrices E1 , E2 , E3 such that

E3 E2 E1 A = U
where U is an upper triangular matrix.
(b) Determine the inverses of E1 , E2 , E3 . Set
L = E11 E21 E31
What type of matrix is L? Check if A = LU .
2. Let U be an n n upper triangular matrix with nonzero diagonal entries.
(a) Explain why U must be nonsingular.
(b) Explain why U 1 must be upper triangular.
3. Are the following two matrices row equivalent? Explain.

1 2 1
A = 1 1 1 and
0 1 0

1
B= 2
1

1
1
0

1
1
0

4. Prove that B is row equivalent to A if and only if there exists a nonsingular matrix M such that B = M A.
5. Let

3
A= 1
2

2 4
2 3
3 2

(a) Find the values of det(M21 ), det(M22 ), and det(M23 ).

(b) Find the values of A21 , A22 , and A23 .
(c) Use your answers from part (b) to compute det(A).
6. Evaluate the following determinant. Write your answer as a polynomial in x.


a x b
c 

 1
x 0 

 0
1 x

7. Find all values of for which the following matrix is singular:



2
4
3
3
8. Evaluate


 0

 1

 2

 1

1
2
3
1
1
1
2
3
3
1 2 3

9. Let A be a nonsingular matrix. Show that

det(A1 ) =

1
det(A)

10. Let A and B be 3 3 matrices with det(A) = 4 and det(B) = 5, and the values of det(AB), det(3A), and
det(A1 B).
11. Consider the 3 3 Vandermonde Matrix

1
V = 1
1

x1
x2
x3

x21
x22
x23

Show that
det(V ) = (x2 x1 )(x3 x1 )(x3 x2 )
12. Let

1
A= 2
3

2
3
4

3
4
5

(a) Compute the determinant of A. Is A nonsingular?

(b) Compute adjA and the product A (adjA).
(c) Let A be a nonsingular n n matrix with n > 1. Show that
det(adjA) = (det(A))n1
13. Let M be a partitioned matrix


A
M=
C

B
D

where A and D are square and A is nonsingular. Show that

det(M ) = det(A) det(D CA1 B)
Hint: Left-multiply M by the matrix


I
CA1

O
I