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Algebra
1
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35
Instructions to Candidates:
1. Attempt all questions and write your answers in the space provided below that question.
2. If there is insufficient space below a question, use the space to
the left of that question, indicating clearly which question you
are answering.
3. If necessary, you may also use the blank pages at the end of the
booklet. If you use these, make sure you indicate clearly which
question you are answering.
4. Only work written in this answer booklet will be marked.
5. Make sure you hand in this booklet.
6. Examination materials must not be removed from the examination room.
7. Calculators without symbolic algebra or remote communications
capabilities are permitted.
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(b) State the value of a so that the system has a solution. Find the solution set in this
case.
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(c) Is the solution set a subspace of R3 ? Give reasons for your answer.
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2. Let
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1 1 1
A = 0 1 1
0 0 1
(a) Use elementary row operations on the augmented matrix A|I3 to find the inverse of
A. (I3 denotes the 3 3 identity matrix.)
Show your row operations explicitly.
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(b) Perform one pivot operation to find a second basic solution with x1 and x5 as basic
variables. Show that this leads to a vertex and give its coordinates.
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6
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5. (a) State whether each of the following sets of vectors is linearly independent, or linearly
dependent. Give reasons for your answers.
(i) {(1, 2, 2), (2, 4, 3), (3, 2, 5), (2, 1, 6)}
(ii) {(1, 1, 0, 2, 4), (1, 0, 5, 3, 2), (0, 0, 0, 0, 0), (1, 2, 1, 3, 2)}
(iii) {(1, 2, 3, 4), (1, 2, 2, 5), (0, 1, 0, 3)}
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A=
1
1
1/3 2/5
2/3 3/5
is an eigenvector for A and find its corresponding
eigenvalue.
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(b) Use the trace of A to find the second eigenvalue for A. Show your working.
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