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This document contains 16 questions about properties of matrices including: 1) Matrix multiplication rules for AB and finding rows and columns of AB 2) Constructing matrices from vector transformations 3) Properties of rank, invertibility, and row/column operations 4) Determinants of elementary matrices and relationships between determinants and invertibility The questions cover foundational concepts in linear algebra including matrix operations, rank, invertibility, and elementary row operations.

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This document contains 16 questions about properties of matrices including: 1) Matrix multiplication rules for AB and finding rows and columns of AB 2) Constructing matrices from vector transformations 3) Properties of rank, invertibility, and row/column operations 4) Determinants of elementary matrices and relationships between determinants and invertibility The questions cover foundational concepts in linear algebra including matrix operations, rank, invertibility, and elementary row operations.

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MA 504
Introduction to Linear Algebra
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Question 0.1 Let A = (aij ) and B = (bij ) be two matrices. Suppose
a1 , a2 , . . . , am are the rows of A and b1 , b2 , . . . , bn are the columns of B. Then
check that
1. AB = [Ab1 , Ab2 , ..., Abn ].
2.

a1 B
a2 B

AB =
.
.
an B

Question 0.2 Let A and B be two matrices given by:

1 2 5
A = 0 3 7
1 3 3

1 0 1
B = 9 3 2
4 3
7
1. Find the second column of the matrix AB.
2. Find the first row of the matrix AB.
3. Find the third row of the matrix AB.
Question 0.3 Let A and B be two matrices such that the matrix product
AB is defined.
1. If the first row of A is identically zero, prove that the first row of AB
also zero.
2. If the first column of B is zero, prove that the first column of AB also
consists only zeros.
1

3. If A has two identical rows then the corresponding rows of AB are also
identical.
4. If B has two identical columns then the corresponding columns of AB
are also identical.
Question 0.4 Let A be a 3 3 matrix such that: A(x, y, z)t = (x + y, y
z, 0)t . Determine the matrix A.
Question 0.5 Let A be a 2 2 matrix such that: A(x, y)t = (xy, x)t . Can
you construct the matrix A?
Question 0.6 Let A be an n n matrix. Suppose that there exist n n
matrices B and C such that AB = In and CA = In , then B = C.
Question 0.7 Let A and B be two m n matrices with real entries. Then
prove that
1. If Ax = 0 for all n 1 vector x with real entries, then A is the zero
matrix.
2. If Ax = Bx for all n 1 vector x with real entries, then A = B.
Question 0.8 Let A be an m n matrix of row- rank r. Then prove that A
can be written as A = BC, where both B and C have rank r and B is of size
m r and C is of size r n.
Question 0.9 Let A be an m n matrix of column- rank s. Then prove that
A can be written as A = QP , where both P and Q have column- rank s and
P is of size s n and Q is of size m s.
Question 0.10 Let A be an m n matrix. Prove that rowrank(A) =
columnrank(A).
Question 0.11 Let A be an m n matrix and P be an m m invertible
matrix. Then rank(P A) = rank(A).
Question 0.12 Let A and B be two matrices. Prove that
1. If A + B is defined, then rank(A + B) rank(A) + rank(B),
2

2. If AB is defined, then rank(AB) min{rank(A), rank(B)}.


Question 0.13 Let A be a square matrix of order(size) n. Then the following statements are equivalent.
1. A is invertible.
2. A has full rank.
3. The row-reduced form of A is In .
Question 0.14 Let A be an m n matrix and B be an n m matrix, where
n < m. Then AB is not invertible.
Definition 1 A matrix A is said to be a singular if det(A) = 0. It is called
non-singular if det(A) 6= 0.
Question 0.15 Fix a positive integer n. Then
1. det(Eij) = 1.
2. For c 6= 0, det(Ek (c)) = c.
3. For c 6= 0, det(Eij (c)) = 1.
Question 0.16 Let A be an nn matrix. If A is invertible then det(A) 6= 0.

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