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A trivial example of involutry matrix is a

(a) Orthogonal matrix (b) Unit matrix (c) Null matrix 2 2 4 3 4 is 2. The matrix A = 2 4 4 5 (a) Skew-symmetric (b) Symmetric (c) Orthogonal (d) Nilpotent 2 0 3. If A = 0 2 0 0 (a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 8 (d) 4 4. If A is a square matrix such that AAT = I then the value of AT A is (a) I (b) A (c) A2 (d) A 1 5. The matrix 0 0 6 0 is a matrix 0 1 0 and B = 0 2 0 3 3 then det of AB has the value 2 (d) singular matrix

2 1 0

(a) Involutary (b) Skew-symmetric (c) Nilpotent (d) Orthogonal 2 2 6. A = 1 3 1 2

4 4 is 3

(a) Idempotent matrix (b) Nilpotent (c) Orthogonal (d) Involutary 1 0 7. What is the rank of A = 0 1 0 0 (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 0 8. The system of equations x + 2y - 3z = 0 , 2x - y + 2z = 0, x + 7y - 11z = 0 is (a) unique solution (b) no solution (c) In consistent (d) consistent 9. The value of x and y, if (a) x = 4 , y = -5 (b) x = 1 , y = 2 (c) x = 4 , y = 3 (d) x = 4 , y = 5 10. The solution of system of equations x + y + z = 1 , 2x + 3y + 2z = 2, 5x + 4y + 3z = 3 is (a) x = y = z = 0 (b) x = 1 , y = 0 z = 0 (c) x = y = z = 1 (d) x = 0 , y = 0 , z = 1 2 2 11. Characteristic equation of A = 0 (a) 3 15+12 = 0 (b) 3 13+12 = 0 (c) 3 1312 = 0 (d) 3 +15+12 = 0 1 0 12. The product of the eigen values of A = 2 (a) 19 (b) 21 (c) 22 (d) 20 13. Product of the eigen values of a matrix A is equal to its (a) |A | (b) |Adj. A | (c) - |A | (d) |A1 | 1 2 3 14. The eigen vector corresponding to the eigen value = 1 for the matrix 0 4 7 is 0 0 7 (a) (0, k, 0 ) (b) ( 0, 0, 0 ) (c) (k, 0, 0 ) (d) ( 1, 1, 1 ) 15. The sum of the eigen values of a matrix A is equal to (a) its nullity (b) trace of A (c) its rank (d) its value of the determinant 0 0 0 0 16. The characteristic equation of the matrix A = 0 0 (a) 3 = 1 (b) 3 + = 0 (c) 3 = 0 (d) 3 = 6 17. If A = (a) (b) (c) (d) 1 2 2 1 , then by Cayley- Hamilton theorem, A8 is 6 0 is 0 2 0 1 5 is 0 2 2 7 1 2 is 1 3 0 1 1 0 x y = 5 4 0 0 1

625 0 0 625 623 0 0 623 626 0 0 626 624 0 0 624

18. If a square matrix A of order n has n linearly independent eigen vectors, then a matrix B can be found such that is a diagonal matrix (a) B1 A (b) A B1 B (c) - B1 AB (d) B1 AB 19. If D = P1 A P, then D10 = (a) P1 P A10 (b) PA1 0P 1 (c) P1 A10 P (d) A4 P P 1 20. The matrix B which diagonalises A is (a) modal (b) Orthogonal (c) symmetric (d) spectral matix.