Year 11 Mathematics Worksheet
10 questions on Matrices from the Maths B (General Maths) national
curriculum for Year 11.
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Questions
1. What does the number in the second row and the third column tell you?
The 3 x 5 matrix shows the numbers of sandwiches sold over five days at the
school canteen.
a) 48 salad sandwiches were sold on Wednesday.
b) 61 salad sandwiches were sold on Monday.
c) 46 chicken sandwiches were sold on Thursday.
d) 45 cheese sandwiches were sold on Tuesday.
Answer: ____________________
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which matrix is equal to 2A – B?
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a)
b)
c)
d)
Answer: ___________________
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3. This first matrix, A, shows the cost price and marked selling price for shirts
and shorts.
The second matrix, B, shows the numbers of shirts and shorts sold in two
successive weeks.
The matrix product AB =
What does the entry in the first row, second column of AB represent?
a) Total marked price of shirts and shorts sold in Week 2.
b) Total cost price of shirts and shorts sold in Week 2.
c) Total marked price of shirts and shorts sold in Week 1.
d) Total cost price of shirts and shorts sold in Week 1.
Answer: ______________________
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4.
A= ,B= ,C= ,D= .
Which matrix product is equal to ?
a) CD
b) BD
c) AB
d) DC
Answer: ____________________________
5.
The 3 x 5 matrix shows the number of sandwiches bought on different days in
the school canteen.
The price of a cheese sandwich is $1.20, the price of a salad sandwich is $1.50
and the price of a chicken sandwich is $1.85.
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If S = and P = (1.2 1.5 1.85)
which matrix shows the amount of money spent on sandwiches on each of the
five days?
a) SP
b) S + P
c) PS
d) P + S
Answer: ________________________
6. A and B are both 2 x 2 square matrices.
AB = I = .
Which statement is false?
a) If A = – I then A = B.
b) AB = BA
c) AB ≠ BA
d) B = A–1
Answer: ___________________
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7. A = .
What does the determinant of A equal?
a) 42
b) 30
c)
d)
Answer: ____________________
8. Which of the matrices A, B, C and D have inverses?
A= ,B= ,C= ,D=
a) B and C
b) B and D
c) A and C
d) A and D
Answer: ________________
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9. Bob has an encoding matrix C that he uses when writing messages in code to
Allen who knows the decoding matrix C–1.
Bob first changes the letters in his message to numbers (a = 1 to z = 26), groups
the numbers in threes and then puts the numbers in columns of 3 x 3 matrices
A and B.
Bob encodes A and B by pre-multiplying them by C before sending the message
to Allen in matrices E and F.
CA = E and CB = F with
C= E= and F =
What was Bob's original message?
a) See you later at home Allen.
b) Meet you at school Bob.
e) Allen you’ll bat third.
d) The answer is twenty.
Answer: ______________________
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10. A take-away coffee bar charges $4.20 for a cappuccino coffee and $3.80 for
a plain coffee.
On one day the coffee bar makes total sales worth $1854.00 and uses 458
cardboard coffee mugs.
This information is shown in the matrix equation:
where m and n are the numbers of cappuccinos and regular coffees sold.
What is the next step in solving this matrix equation to find the number of
each kind of coffee sold?
Note that:
a)
b)
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c)
d)
Answer: ______________________
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The Answers.
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Question 1
Answer: a) 48 salad sandwiches were sold on Wednesday.
The second row is for salad sandwiches.
The third column is for Wednesday.
The number in the second row and the third column tells us that 48 salad
sandwiches were sold on Wednesday.
Question 2
Answer: A )
The elements in the first row of 2A – B are:
2 x 5 – 2, 2 x 7 – 1, 2 x 3 – 4, 2 x 1 – 0.
The elements in the second row of 2A – B are:
2 x 8 – 5, 2 x 0 – 3, 2 x 2 – 2, 2 x 9 – 1.
The elements in the third row of 2A – B are:
2 x 0 – 6, 2 x 4 – 0, 2 x 6 – 1, 2 x 7 – 2.
2A – B =
Question 3
Answer: b) The total cost price for both kinds of garments sold in Week 2
The elements in the first row of A are the cost prices of shirts and shorts.
The elements in the second column of B are the numbers of each garment sold
in Week 2.
The element in the first row and second column of AB is the cost price of shirts
times the number sold plus the cost price of shorts times the number sold in
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Week 2.
The total cost price for both kinds of garments sold in Week 2 equals $1660.
Question 4
Answer: D ) DC
The only products which will have 2 rows and 2 columns are A2, B2, AB, BA and
DC.
Eliminate A2, B2, AB, BA by checking that the element in the first row and
column of these products is not 2.
Complete the multiplication for DC.
Question 5
Answer: C ) PS
The product SP is not possible.
The product PS is of size 1 x 5. It has one row and five columns.
Each element in PS is the sum of the amounts of money from selling each kind
of sandwich on a particular day.
For example: The element in the third column of PS will show that on
Wednesday the 52 cheese sandwiches at $1.20 each, 48 salad sandwiches at
$1.50 each and the 39 chicken sandwiches at $1.85 each would have sold for a
total of $(52 x 1.2 + 48 x 1.5 + 39 x 1.85)
Question 6
Answer: C ) AB ≠ BA.
By definition, if AB = I then A and B are inverses and B = A–1.
In a special case if A = –I then –IB = I and –B = I. Therefore B = –I and A = B.
So these two statements above can be eliminated.
That leaves AB = BA and AB ≠ BA which cannot both be true.
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If A = then A–1 = = B.
BA = = I = AB.
Therefore the false statement is AB ≠ BA.
Question 7
Answer: B ) 30
From the definition, the "determinant of A" = |A| = 4 x 9 – 3 x 2 = 30.
Question 8
Answer: D ) A and D
A matrix with determinant zero does not have an inverse because in the set of
real numbers division by zero is not defined.
|A| = 36 – 6 ≠ 0. Matrix A has an inverse.
|B| = 36 – 36 = 0. Matrix B does not have an inverse.
|C| = 48 – 48 = 0. Matrix C does not have an inverse.
|D| = 0 – 3 ≠ 0. Matrix D does has an inverse.
Therefore, Matrix A and Matrix D both have inverses.
Question 9
Answer: B ) Meet you at school Bob.
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Equating corresponding elements:
a + c = 1, a + b = 0, b + c = 0, from which a = c = 1/2 and b = – 1/2.
d + f = 0, d + e = 1, e + f = 0, from which d = e = 1/2 and f = – 1/2.
g + k = 0, g + h = 0, h + k = 1, from which h = k = 1/2 and g = – 1/2.
To complete the solution find A and B from A = C–1E and B = C–1F and replace
the numbers in A and B with letters of the alphabet.
Read down the columns.
Question 10
Answer: C )
You were only asked for the next step but the full solution is shown.
Since
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The coffee bar sold 284 cappuccinos and 174 plain coffees.
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