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Home Work # 1 (Due date: 25th August 2017)

1. The following system is not linear in that it says sin instead of

2sin cos 3tan 3

4sin 2cos 2 tan 10
6sin 3cos tan 9

and yet we can apply Gausss Method. Do so? Does the system have a solution?
[10 points]

2. Gausss Method works by combining the equations in a system to make a new

equation.

(a) Can we derive the equation 3x-2y=5 by a sequence of Gaussian reduction steps
from the equations in this system?

x y 1
4x y 6

(b) Can we derive the equation 5x-3y=2 with a sequence of Gaussian reduction steps
from the equations in this system ?

2x 2 y 5
3x y 4

(c) Can we derive 6x-9y+5z=-2 by a sequence of Gaussian reduction steps from the
equations in the system?

2x y z 4
6x 3 y z 5

[5+10+10= 25 points]

3. Solve the following system and give the solution in vector notation. Identify the
particular solution and the solution of the homogeneous system.

a 2b 3c d e 1
3a b c d e 3

[10 points]
4. Give a basis for the span of the set {x+x2, 2-2x, 7, 4+3x+2x2} in natural vector space.

[10 points]

5. Suppose A is the matrix

0 1 2 2
A 0 3 8 7
0 0 4 2

(a) Find all special solutions to Ax=0 and describe in words the whole nullspace of A
(b) Describe the column space of this particular matrix A. All combinations of the four
columns is not a sufficient answer.
(c) What is the reduced row echelon form R*=rref(B) when B is the 6 by 8 block
matrix

A A
B using the same A.
A A

[10++5+5=20 points]

6. The 3 by 3 matrix A reduces to the identity matrix I by the following three row
operations (in order):
E21 : Substract 4(row1) from row 2
E31 : Substract 3(row1) from row 3
E23 : Substract row3 from row 2

(a) Write the inverse matrix A-1 in terms of the Es. Then compute A-1.
(b) What is the original matrix A?
(c) What is the lower triangular factor L in A=LU.

[10+10+5= 25 points]