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This document contains tutorial problems about determinants and dot products. It includes problems calculating determinants of matrices using row reduction and cofactor expansion. It also includes problems finding the angle and distance between vectors using the dot product. One problem uses divisibility rules to show a determinant is divisible by 19 without direct calculation.

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Tut 02

This document contains tutorial problems about determinants and dot products. It includes problems calculating determinants of matrices using row reduction and cofactor expansion. It also includes problems finding the angle and distance between vectors using the dot product. One problem uses divisibility rules to show a determinant is divisible by 19 without direct calculation.

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MAST10008 Accelerated Mathematics 1 Version 2

Tutorial 2: Determinants and Dot Product


Determinants

Q1. Use row


 reduction to find
 the determinants of the following matrices:  
1 −2 7 3   0 0 0 a14
  1 a a2  
−2 4
   
0 1    0 0 a23 0 
(i)  (ii)
 2 (iii) 
 1 b b  
−2 3 −3 1
   
   0 a32 0 0 
  1 c c2  
−3 6 −21 0 a41 0 0 0
(Hint: Factorise your answer in (ii) as you go.)

Q2. Let    
" 1 3
# 2 1 3 −1 2 0
2 4
H= 2
J =  −2 −1 7  K= 3 3 0 
3 − 13 1 0 −2 2 −1 1

(a) Use cofactor expansion to find:


(i) det(H) (ii) det(J). (iii) det(K).

(b) Without doing further determinant calculations, find (if defined):


(i) det(J 2 K) (ii) det(KH) (iii) det(3J) (iv) det(K T (J −1 )2 )

Q3. Suppose that     


0 1 0 1 0 0 1 −2 0 1 0 0
I = 1 0 0 0 1 0  0 1 0 0 8 0 A.
0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 0 1

(a) Write down a sequence of elementary row operations reducing A to the identity matrix I.
(b) What is det(A)?

Q4. (Exercises, Sheet 1, Q27) A matrix P is called idempotent if P 2 = P . If P is idempotent and P 6= I show
that det P = 0.

Vectors and Dot Product

Q5. Let a = (1, 2, 5) and b = (−3, 1, 0).


(a) Find the cosine of θ, the angle between a and b.
(b) Find the distance between the points (1, 2, 5) and (−3, 1, 0).

Q6. (Anton–Rorres p130, Q35) Use the fact that 21375, 38798, 34162, 40223, 79154 are all divisible by 19 to
show that
2 1 3 7 5

3 8 7 9 8

3 4 1 6 2

4 0 2 2 3

7 9 1 5 4
is divisible by 19 without evaluating the determinant.

Mathematics and Statistics 1 University of Melbourne

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