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221 Practice Midterm 2

This document contains a practice midterm exam for a matrix algebra course. It includes 5 questions assessing the student's knowledge of properties of matrices, linear transformations, determinants, and subspaces. Some of the questions require determining if statements are true or false, computing determinants, finding the rank and nullspace of a matrix, and expressing a linear transformation using its standard matrix.

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221 Practice Midterm 2

This document contains a practice midterm exam for a matrix algebra course. It includes 5 questions assessing the student's knowledge of properties of matrices, linear transformations, determinants, and subspaces. Some of the questions require determining if statements are true or false, computing determinants, finding the rank and nullspace of a matrix, and expressing a linear transformation using its standard matrix.

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Math 221: Matrix Algebra


Practice Midterm 2
(1) Indicate whether each of the following hold by writing the complete word True or False (you will
lose points for simply writing T or F). You do not need to justify your answers.
(a) If A and B are n n matrices, and AB = 0, then either A = 0 or B = 0. (Here 0 denotes the
n n zero matrix.)

(b) Every n n invertible matrix is row equivalent to the n n identity matrix.

(c) Every matrix is the standard matrix of a linear transformation.

(d) If A and B are invertible n n matrices, then (AB)1 = A1 B 1 .

(e) If a set S of vectors spans Rn , then S is linearly dependent.

(f) If A is not invertible, then AT is not invertible.

(2) Indicate whether or not each of the following is a linear subspace by writing either yes, if it is a
linear subspace, and otherwise no. You do not need to justify your answers.

x1

(a) x2 R3 : x1 + x2 x3 = 0 .

x3

(b) The union of two subspaces of Rn .

(c) The set {0} consisting of the zero vector in Rn .

(d) The set of vectors in R4 whose third coordinate is 1.

(3) Answer each of the following:


(a) Compute the determinant of the following matrix A:

1 1 2 1/3
0
0 1 5

A=
1 2 1 7
0
0 0 3

(b) Is the following matrix B invertible? If not, explain why. If so, compute its inverse.

1 1 2
0 1
A= 0
1 2 1

(4) Let A = (a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 ) be the 4 5 matrix whose columns are the vectors a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , and a5
in R4 . Suppose the reduced echelon form of A is

1 1 0 1 0
0
0 1 1 0

REF(A) =
0
0 0
0 1
0
0 0
0 0
(a) What is the rank of A?

(b) What is the dimension of the nullspace of A?

(c) Give a basis for the column space of A.

(d) Give a basis for the nullspace of A.

(5) Let A be the matrix with columns a1 , . . . , an Rn . We use the notation:


det(a1 , . . . , an ) = det(A)
(a) Write True or False (not T or F) to indicate whether or not the following always holds:
The number det(a1 , . . . , an ) is nonzero if and only if the set of vectors {a1 , . . . , an }
is linearly independent.

(b) Suppose the vectors v and w are in R3 . We define a transformation S : R3 R by


S(x) = det(x, v, w)
Suppose that the set {v, w} is linearly independent. Is S one-to-one? Onto? Justify your
answers.

(c) What if we had assumed in (b) that the set {v, w} is linearly dependent. Is S one-to-one?
Onto? Again, justify your answers.

(d) Suppose that T : R3 R is defined by:


T (x) = det(3v, x, 2v + w)
where v and w are as in Part (b). Recall that S : R3 R was defined in Part (b) to be
S(x) = det(x, v, w).
If S(u) = 2, what is T (u)?

(e) Let S : R3 R be as in Part (b). Let

v1
v = v2
v3

w1
w = w2
w3

Express the standard matrix for S : R3 R in terms of v1 , v2 , v3 and w1 , w2 , w3 .

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