August, 2021

Haramaya University
College of Natural and Computational Sciences
Department of Mathematics

Worksheet I and II For The Course Applied Mathematics

Instruction I: Do the following questions by showing all the necessary steps.

1. Find x, y and z, where:

a. (x, y + 1, y + z) = (2x + y, 4, 3z)

2. Find k so that u and v are orthogonal, where:

a. u = (2, 3k, −4, 1, 5) and v = (6, −1, 3, 7, 2k).

3. For each of the following find cosθ, d(u, v) and proj(u, v)

a. u = (1, −2k, 4) and v = (3, 5, 1). c. u = (1, 3, −4) and v = (2, 1, 5).
b. u = (2, −5, 4, 6, −3) and v = (5, −2, 1, −7, −4).

4. Find an equation of a hyperplane (plane) that

a. passes through P (3, −4, 1, −2) and is normal to u = (2, 5, −6, −3).
b. contains P (3, −1, 2, 5) and is parallel to 2x1 − 3x2 + 5x3 − 7x4 = 4.
c. with normal N = 3i − 4j + 5k and containing the point P (1, 2, −3).

5. Find a parametric representation of the line

a. passes through the points P (1, 2, 1, 2) and Q(3, −5, 7, −9).

6. Find a unit vector u orthogonal to

a. v = (1, 3, 4) and w = (2, −6, −5). c. v = (1, 2, 3) and w = (1, −1, 2).
b. v = 3i − j + 2k and w = 4i − 2j − k.

7. Find the volume of the parallelepiped formed by the vectors:

a. u = 2i + 5j − 3k, v = 3i − 4j + 2k and w = 4i + 7j + 2k.

8. Find x, y, z, t where
     
x y x 6 4 x+y
3 = +
z t −1 2t z+t 3
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9. Let (r × s) denotes an r × s matrix. Find the sizes of those matrix products that are defined:
a. (2 × 3)(3 × 4) c. (1 × 2)(3 × 1) e. (4 × 4)(3 × 3)
b. (4 × 1)(1 × 2) d. (5 × 2)(2 × 3) f. (2 × 2)(2 × 4)
10. Find AB and BA, where

     2 −1 0 6

1 3 2 0 −4 2 3 −1
a. A = ,B = b. A = , B =  1 3 −5 1 .
2 −1 3 −2 6 4 −2 5
4 1 −2 2
   
1 0 2 −11 2 2
11. Show that A =  2 −1 3  and B =  −4 0 1  are inverses.
4 1 8 6 −1 −1
12. Find the row reduced echelon form of each of the following matrices and determine the rank.
       
1 0 2 0 5 −3 1 3 5 7 1 −2 −1 3 0
a.  2 −1 3  b.  1 5 −2  c.  2 4 6 8  d.  −2 4 5 −5 3 
4 1 8 2 1 8 3 5 7 9 3 −6 −6 8 3

13. Determine if the following systems are consistent and if so solve the system using Gaussian
elimination method.
x + 3y − z = 2 x−y+z = 3 2x − y + z = 2
a. y − 2z = 4 b. x + 5y − 5z = 2 c. −2x +y+z = 4
−2x − 3y − 3z = 5 2x + y − z = 1 6x − 3y − 2z = −9
14. Find i. det B ii. adj B iii. B −1 iv. r(B) for
 
  2
 1 −3 4 
  1 2 2 −3 −1 2
1 3  5 −4 7 −2 
a. B = b. B = 3 1 0 c. B =
   1 −2 −3  d. B =  
2 −1  4 0 6 −3 
1 1 1 2 3 1
3 −2 5 2

t−4 3 t−1 4
15. Find all t such that: a. =0 b. =0
2 t−9 3 t−2
16. Let A and B be 4 × 4 matrix with detA = 2 and detB = −3. Find det(2AB t ).
 
6 7 −1
17. Find λ if the matrix A =  3 λ 5  has no inverse.
9 11 λ
18. Solve the following systems of linear equations by Cramer’s rule.
x + 3y − z = 2 2x − y + z = 6 3y − 2z = 7 + x
a. y − 2z = 4 b. x + 4y − 2z = −4 c. 3x + 3 = −3z
−2x − 3y − 3z = 5 3x + z = 7 2x + 1 = −y − 2z
19. Find the eigenvalues and the corresponding eigenvectors of:
   
    1 1 1 3 −2 0
1 6 1 1
a. A = b. A = c. A =  0 2 1  d. A =  −2 3 0 
5 2 −2 3
0 0 1 0 0 5

2 By: Mohammed Sani