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This document contains instructions for a statistics honors examination paper on linear algebra. It includes 10 one-mark questions covering topics like expressing a matrix as the sum of symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices, finding determinants and inverses, properties of orthogonal and idempotent matrices. It also includes 4 five-mark questions proving properties of determinants, ranks, and orthogonal matrices. Finally, it contains 2 ten-mark questions on finding determinants, inverses, and orthogonalizing vectors using the Gram-Schmidt process. Students are instructed to show their working and provide answers in their own words as far as possible.

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CC5 2020

This document contains instructions for a statistics honors examination paper on linear algebra. It includes 10 one-mark questions covering topics like expressing a matrix as the sum of symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices, finding determinants and inverses, properties of orthogonal and idempotent matrices. It also includes 4 five-mark questions proving properties of determinants, ranks, and orthogonal matrices. Finally, it contains 2 ten-mark questions on finding determinants, inverses, and orthogonalizing vectors using the Gram-Schmidt process. Students are instructed to show their working and provide answers in their own words as far as possible.

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(1) T(3rd Sm.

)-Statistics-H/CC-5/CBCS

2020
STATISTICS — HONOURS
Paper : CC-5
(Linear Algebra)
Full Marks : 50

The figures in the margin indicate full marks.


Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words
as far as practicable.

1. Answer any ten questions : 1×10

 4 5 1
(a) Express A    2 7 3 as the sum of a symmetric and a skew symmetric matrix.
 
 1 3 4 

1 0
(b) If A   50
 , find A .
  1 1

1 1 1 
 
(c) Find the value of the determinant     .
 2 2 
  2 

(d) If A and B are matrices of order n such that A + B = In and AB = 0, show that A and B are both
idempotent.
(e) If AB = B and BA = A, show that both the matrices A and B are idempotent.

(f) For a real orthogonal matrix A, show that A1  A .

1
(g) If A is a real skew symmetric matrix and (I + A) is non-singular, show that  I  A  ( I  A) is
orthogonal.

0 1 0 
(h) If A   0 0 1  , find the rank of A + A2.
 
1 0 0 

(i) If A is a real non-symmetric matrix of order 3, find the determinant of the matrix A – AT.

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T(3rd Sm.)-Statistics-H/CC-5/CBCS (2)

(j) If S  ( x, y, 0) : x, y   and T  (0, y, z ) : y, z   , find dim(S  T).

(k) If S  ( x, 0) : x   and T  (u , u ) : u   , then show that 2 = S + T, Here ‘+’ denotes a sum of
two vector sub spaces.
(l) If S  ( x, 0) : x   and T  (u , u ) : u   modify T, so that 2 = S  T

Here  denotes the direct sum of two vector sub spaces.


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(m) Let  be an eigenvalue of a non-singular matrix A and show that is an eigenvalue of A–1.

(n) If A is a real positive definite matrix, then show that A–1 is also positive definite.

2. Answer any four questions : 5×4


s0 s1 s2
r r r
(a) If Sr       , prove that s1 s2 s3  (  ) 2 (   )2 (    )2 .
s2 s3 s4
(b) If A is a non-singular matrix such that sum of each row (column) is k, then prove that sum of each
row (column) of A–1 is 1/k.

(c) “If A and B are real orthogonal matrices of same order and A  B  0, then (A + B) is a singular
matrix.”— Prove or disprove.
(d) What do you mean by the null space (B) of an m × n matrix B? Show that
dim   ( B )   n  rank( B).

(e) What is rank factorisation of a matrix? State and prove the rank factorisation theorem.

(f) The following are four vectors spanning a sub space S : 1 ,  2 , 3 ,  4  where

1  1, 2, 3,  1 ,  2   2, 2, 6,  1 , 3   2, 2, 6,  1 and  4   3, 3, 7, 0  . Find the dimension of


S and a basis of S .

3. Answer any two questions : 10×2


(a) Find the determinant of the following matrix :

1  2 3 .. .. n 1
 1  2 .. .. n  2

(i) 2  1  .. .. n  3 where |  | < 1.


. . . . .. .. .
n 1 n  2 n  3  n  4 ... 1
(3) T(3rd Sm.)-Statistics-H/CC-5/CBCS

(ii) Let A be a non-singular matrix of order n and U and V be two vectors of order n.
Then, show that A  UV    is invertible if and only if V  A1U  1 and in that case
1 A 1 UV  A 1
 A  UV    A 1 
1  V  A 1 U
.

(iii) Use the above result to find the inverse of the matrix
M  (a  b) I n  b 1n1n where a  b and a + (n – 1) b  0.
(b) (i) Derive Gram–Schmidt process of orthogonalisation of a given set of independent vectors.
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(ii) Show that the following set of vectors in  is an independent set and orthogonalize them in
3
Gram-Schmidt process to get an orthogonal basis of  —

1, 2,1 ;  2, 1, 2 ; 1, 0,  1  .


  

(c) (i) If A is a real symmetric matrix of order n, then show that there exists an orthogonal matrix
P such that PAP  =  and PP = I,
where   Diag  1 ,  2 , ...,  n  ; 1   2  ...   n , being the distinct eigenvalues.
(ii) Discuss how the above result may be used to find the higher powers of A and also the inverse
of A, when A is non-singular.

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