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You Know My Methods. Apply Them! - Sherlock Holmes

The document contains 7 math exercises involving concepts in linear algebra such as vector spaces, subspaces, bases, and null spaces. The exercises ask students to determine if sets are vector spaces, find bases, determine dimensions, and find null spaces.

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You Know My Methods. Apply Them! - Sherlock Holmes

The document contains 7 math exercises involving concepts in linear algebra such as vector spaces, subspaces, bases, and null spaces. The exercises ask students to determine if sets are vector spaces, find bases, determine dimensions, and find null spaces.

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Math 40 Exercises

Linear Algebra L. D. Valdez

1. Let V = R2 . Define the following operations:


a. vector addition: (x1 , y1) ⊕ (x2 , y2 ) = (x1 x2 , y1 y2 )
b. scalar multiplication: k · (x, y) = (kx, ky)
Determine ~0. Is V is a vector space over R? Explain your answer.

2. Let V be the set of all 2 × 2 matrices over R and define the following operations:
a. vector addition: A ⊕ B =A2 + B2  
a b ka kb
b. scalar multiplication: k · =
c d kc kd
Is V is a vector space over R? Explain your answer.

3. Determine whether or not the subset W is a subspace of the given vector space V . Justify your answer.
(a) V = R4 and W = {(w, x, y, z) ∈ R4 | w + y = x + z}
(b) V = P3 = {a + bx + cx2 + dx3 | a, b, c, d ∈ R}, the vector space of all polynomials with real coefficients
of degree at most 3, and W = {a + bx + cx2 + dx3 | a + d = 1}

4. Show that B = {x2 + x, x + 1, x − 1} forms a basis for P2 = {a + bx + cx2 | a, b, c, ∈ R}

5. Let P3 = {a + bx + cx2 + dx3 | a, b, c, d ∈ R}, the vector space of all polynomials with real coefficients of
degree at most 3. Consider the subspaceW = h1 + x2 , 1 + x3 , 2x + 2x2 + x3 , 2 + 4x + 9x2 − x3 i. Determine
a basis for W . What is the dimension of W ?
 
1 2 3 2 1
6. Let A =  3 1 −5 −2 1 .
7 8 −1 2 5
(a) Give a basis for the row space and the column space of A.
(b) Determine the rank of A.
(c) Determine the null space of A and the nullity of A.
 
1 3 2 −1

 −2 2 3 2 

7. Find a basis for the null space of B = 
 0 8 7 0 
.
 3 1 2 4 
−4 4 3 −3

You know my methods. Apply them!


-Sherlock Holmes

Any form of cheating in examinations or any act of dishonesty in relation to studies, such as plagiarism, shall be
subject to disciplinary action.

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