MA204 - Linear Algebra and Matrices Assignment

IInd year/ [Link]./ CSE / July-2025 August 18, 2025

Last date for submission: September 04, 2025 Max. mark: 10

1. Which of the following is a vector space over R, under usual operation?

(a) The set of all n × n matrices A with real entries such that A2 = A.
(b) B={(x1 , x2 , . . . , xn ) ∈ Rn : x1 = 0}.
2. Let V1 and V2 be the subspaces of V . Prove:
(a) If V1 ∩ V2 = {0}, and E1 , E2 are bases of V1 , V2 , then E1 ∪ E2 is a basis of V1 + V2 . In
particular, dim(V1 + V2 ) = dim(V1 ) + dim(V2 );
(b) dim(V1 + V2 ) = dim(V1 ) + dim(V2 ) − dim(V1 ∩ V2 ).
3. Prove the following statements:
(a) S = {(α1 , α2 , α3 ) ∈ R3 : α1 + α2 − α3 = 0} is a subspace of R3 .
(b) If V1 , V2 ⊂ V are subspaces, then V1 + V2 = span(V1 ∪ V2 ).
4. Find x1 , x2 , x3 , x4 ∈ R3 such that any three are linearly independent.
5. Find conditions on α such that:
(a) (1 + α, 1 − α), (1 − α, 1 + α) are linearly dependent in R2 .
(b) (α, 1, 0), (1, α, 1), (0, 1, α) are linearly dependent in R3 .
6. Suppose x, y, z are linearly independent. Are x + y, y + z, z + x linearly independent?
7. If V0 is a subspace of a vector space V , then there exists a subspace V1 of V such that V = V0 +V1
and V0 ∩ V1 = {0}.
8. Prove the following
(a) The set {(1, 0, 0, −1), (0, 1, 0, −1), (0, 0, 1, −1), (0, 0, 0, −1)} is a basis for R4 .
(b) The set {x2 + 3x − 2, 2x2 + 5x − 3, −x2 − 4x + 4} is a basis for P2 (R), set of all polynomials
of degree less than or equal to two.
9. Show that W = {(a1 , a2 , a3 , a4 , a5 ) ∈ R5 : a1 + a3 + a5 = 0, a2 = a4 } is a subspace of R5 . Also
find the dim(W ).
10. Determine whether the following sets are linearly dependent or linearly independent.
(" # " #)
1 −3 −2 6
(a) , in M2×2 (R)
−2 4 4 −8
         


 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 

        
(b) 0 0 , 1 1 , 0 0 , 1 0 , 0 1 in M3×2 (R)
         

 

 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 
11. Prove that W1 = {(a1 , a2 , . . . an ) ∈ Rn : a1 + a2 + · · · + an = 0} is a subspace of Rn , but
W2 = {(a1 , a2 , . . . , an ) ∈ Rn : a1 + a2 + · · · + an = 1} is not a subspace of Rn .
12. Obtain the orthonormal vectors from the given vectors (1, 0, 1), (0, 1, 1), (1, 3, 3) of R3 , using
Gram Schmidt process.

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13. Obtain the orthonormal vectors from the given vectors (2, 1, 2, 1), (1, 2, 1, 2), (1, 1, 2, 2), (1, 1, 2, −1)
of R4 , using Gram Schmidt process.
14. Solve the system of equations using row transformation:
x1 + 3x2 + 2x3 + 4x4 − 3x5 = −7
2x1 + 6x2 − x4 − 2x5 = 0
6x3 + 2x4 − x5 = 12
x1 + 3x2 − x3 + 4x4 + 2x5 = −6
15. Solve the system of equations using row transformation:
x1 + x2 − 2x3 + 4x4 = 5
2x1 + 2x2 − 3x3 + x4 = 3
3x1 + 3x2 − 4x3 − 2x4 = 1
 
0 −3 −6 4 9
 
−1 −2 −1 1 3
16. Obtain the row echelon canonical form of the following: 
−2 −3 0

 3 −1 
1 4 5 −9 −7
 
1 1 1 1 4
1 2 3 −4 2 
 
 
2 1 1 2 6
17. Obtain the row echelon canonical form of the following: 
 

3 2 −1 −1 3 
 
1 2 2 2 −2
 
 
2 3 −3 1 1
 
1 −1 1 1 −1
 
−1 2 −1 3 1
 
18. Find the inverse of the matrix by elementary row transformation:  1 1 1 −1 1 
 
 
1 3 1 2 1 
 
1 −1 −1 −1 2
 
1 3 3 2 1
 
1 4
 3 3 −1 
19. Find the inverse of the matrix by partition: 1 3 4 1 1
 
 
1 1
 1 1 −1 
1 −2 −1 2 2
 
5 3 1 7 9
 
6 4 2 8 −8
 
20. Find the inverse of the matrix by partition: 7 5 3 10 9 
 
 
9 6 4 −9 −5
 
8 5 2 11 4