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**Mathematics Questions**

**Question 2.**
Consider the matrices

\[A = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 1 & 3 \\ 2 & 3 & 1 \\ 1 & 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix} \quad \text{and} \quad
B = \begin{bmatrix} -1 & 2 & 3 \\ -2 & 3 & 1 \\ -1 & 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix}\]

(i) Find \( A + B \).


(ii) Find \( (A + B)(A - B) \). *(May 2010)*

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**Question 3.**
Given \( P = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & -3 \\ -1 & 2 \end{bmatrix} \), find the inverse of \( P \) by
elementary row operations. *(March 2011)*

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**Question 4.**
Let
\[A = \begin{bmatrix} 3 & 6 & 5 \\ 6 & 7 & 8 \end{bmatrix}\]
and
\[C = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & -3 \\ 4 & 5 & 6 \end{bmatrix}\]

(i) Find \( 2A \).


(ii) Find the matrix \( B \) such that \( 2A + B = 3C \). *(May 2011)*

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**Question 5.**
Let \( A = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 4 \\ -1 & 1 \end{bmatrix} \).

(i) Apply elementary transformation \( R_1 \to \frac{R_1}{2} \) in the matrix \( A \).
(ii) Find the inverse of \( A \) by elementary transformations. *(May 2011)*

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**Question 6.**
Consider the matrix \( A = \begin{bmatrix} 3 & 1 \\ -1 & 2 \end{bmatrix} \).

(i) Find \( A^2 \).


(ii) Find \( k \) such that \( A^2 = kA - 7I \). *(March 2012)*
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**Question 7.**
Consider a \( 2 \times 2 \) matrix \( A = [a_{ij}] \) where \( a_{ij} = |2i - 3j| \).

(i) Write \( A \).


(ii) Find \( A + A^T \). *(March 2012)*

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**Question 8.**
If \( A = \begin{bmatrix} 3 & 1 \\ -1 & 2 \end{bmatrix} \), then

(i) Find \( A^2 \).


(ii) Hence show that \( A^2 - 5A + 7I = 0 \). *(March 2013)*

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**Question 9.**
If a matrix \( A = \begin{bmatrix} 3x & x \\ -x & 2x \end{bmatrix} \) is a solution of the equation
\( x^2 - 5x + 7 = 0 \), find any one value of \( x \). *(May 2013)*

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**Question 10.**
Consider the matrices
\[A = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & -2 \\ -1 & 3 \end{bmatrix} \quad \text{and} \quad B = \begin{bmatrix}
a & b \\ c & d \end{bmatrix}\]
Given \( AB = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 9 \\ 5 & 6 \end{bmatrix} \), find the values of \( a, b, c, d \).
*(March 2014)*

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**Question 11.**
Consider a \( 2 \times 2 \) matrix \( A = [a_{ij}] \) where \( a_{ij} = \frac{(i + 2j)^2}{2} \).

(i) Write \( A \).


(ii) Find \( A + A^T \). *(March 2014)*

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**Question 12.**
If \( X + Y = \begin{bmatrix} 7 & 0 \\ 2 & 5 \end{bmatrix} \) and \( X - Y = \begin{bmatrix} 3 & 0
\\ 0 & 3 \end{bmatrix} \), then

(i) Find \( X \) and \( Y \).


(ii) Find \( 2X + Y \). *(May 2014)*
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**Question 13.**
(i) If \( A, B \) are symmetric matrices of the same order, then \( AB - BA \) is always a:
A) Skew-Symmetric matrix
B) Symmetric matrix
C) Identity matrix
D) Zero matrix

(ii) For the matrix \( A = \begin{bmatrix} 2 & 4 \\ 5 & 6 \end{bmatrix} \), verify that \( A + A^T \)
is a symmetric matrix. *(March 2015)*

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