MATH10202

3 Hours

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

LINEAR ALGEBRA A

30th May 2014

14:00 - 17:00

Answer ALL five questions.

Electronic calculators may be used, provided that they cannot store text.

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SECTION A
Answer BOTH questions.

A1.
(a) Describe the three types of row operations which may be performed on a matrix A.
(b) Let A be a matrix and B be the matrix obtained by applying one row operation to A. State,
for each of the three types of row operation, the relationship between detA and detB.
(c) Calculate detA where

1 2 3 1
3 6 11 1

A=
2 4 9 4 .
2 4 8
1
[10 marks]


A2. Let W =

a a+b
0
b


| a, b R be a subset of the vector space M2 (R) over R.

(a) Show that W is a subspace of M2 (R).

(b) Write down a basis for W and state the dimension of W .
[5 marks]

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SECTION B
Answer ALL three questions.

B3.
(a) Find the inverse of

1
0 1 0
1 1
1 1
.
A=
0
1
1 0
1 1 0 1
(b) Solve the following system of linear equations.
x1
x3
x1 + x2 + x3 + x4
x2 + x3
x1 x2
+ x4

=
=
=
=

2
0
1
3

2 4 2
(c) Find all real numbers k such that 1 k 3 is invertible.
1 1 2
(d) Prove that a system of linear equations either has no solutions, a unique solution or infinitely
many solutions.
(e) Let A and B be n n invertible matrices. Prove that
(AB)1 = B 1 A1 .

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B4. Let V and W be vector spaces over a field K.
(a) Define what we mean by a linear transformation from V to W .
(b) Define the kernel and range of a linear transformation T : V W and prove that the range of
T is a subspace of W .
(c) Let T : R3 P2 be defined by

a
T b = b + (a + c)x + bx2
c
for all a, b, c R.
(i) Show that T is a linear transformation and find the range of T .

1
1
1
(ii) Find the matrix of T with respect to the bases B = 0 , 1 , 2 and

1
1
1
C = {1, x, x2 } of R3 and P2 respectively.
[20 marks]

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B5. Let A Mmn (R) be an m n matrix with entries in R.
(a) Define the null space, null(A), and the row space, row(A), of A. Define the rank and nullity of
A.
(b) Prove that if the matrix B is row equivalent to A, then row(B) = row(A). Hence, or otherwise,
prove that the dimension of row(A) is the number of non-zero rows in the reduced row echelon
form of A.
(c) Find the reduced row echelon form of A when

1 3 2
5
0 3 .
A = 2 6
4 12 4 1
Write down a basis for row(A) and state the rank and nullity of A.
[20 marks]

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