CHAPTER:3

MATRICES
ONE MARK QUESTIONS

1. Find the Order of the following Matrices. Also find the total
Number of elements in each matrix.
𝑚 0 0 2
1 0
(a) A= [ 𝐴 𝑇 0] (b) B= [ ] (c) C = [6]
2 3
𝐻 𝑠 𝐿 7
2. Write the number of all possible matrices of order 2 x 2 with each
entry 1, 2 or 3.
3. Give an example of a 2 x 2 non-zero matrices A, B and C such that
(a) AB = 0 but BA≠ 0 ( b) AB= 0 and BA = 0 (c) AB=AC but
B≠ 0
4. Give an example of a 3 x 3 matrix which is
(a) Upper Triangular as well as Lower Triangular Matrix
(b) Symmetric Matrix
(c) Skew-Symmetric Matrix
(d) Neither Symmetric non-Skew-Symmetric Matrix
(e) Symmetric as well as skew-symmetric
5. How many Matrices of order 2 x 2 are possible with entry O or 1.
How many of these are diagonal matrices. List them.
(a) How many Matrices of order 3 x 3 are possible with O or -1.
How many of these are Diagonal matrices?
(b) If there are five one's i.e., 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 and four zeroes i.e., 0,
0, 0, 0. Thus how many symmetric matrices of order 3 x 3
are possible with these 9 entries?
1 𝑥2 − 2 3
6. Find 'x', if A = [7 5 7 ] is Symmetric Matrix.
3 7 −5
(a) 𝑥 = ±2 (b) 𝑥 = ±3 (c) x=3 (d) x=4
0 𝑥2 + 6 1
7. Find x, if A =[ −5𝑥 𝑥−2 9 7] is skew-symmetric Matrix
−1 −7 0
(a) 5 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4
2𝑦 − 1 0 0
8. Find (x + y) if A = [ 0 𝑥 − 3 0] is scalar Matrix
0 0 7
(a) 17 (b) 19 (c) 10 (d) 5
 2 𝑂 𝑦−𝑥
9. Find the value of xy if A = [𝑥 + 𝑦 − 2 3 0 ] is diagonal matrix.
0 0 4
(a) xy = 2 (b) xy = 3 (c) xy =1 (d) xy = 4
1 0
10. If [𝑥 1] [ ] = 0, then find x.
−2 0
(a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 2 (d) 4

11. If A is matrix of order m x n and 8 is a matrix such that AB and BA

are both defined, then find the order of matrix B
(a) mxn (b) n x m (c) m x m (d) n x n

12. If A is a skew-symmetric matrix, then (𝐴2 )𝑇 = 𝑘𝐴2 , find the value of k.

(a) K= 2 (b) k= 6 (c) k=1 (d) k= 7
13. If A is a symmetric matrix, then (A3)T = kA3, find the value of k.
(a) K= 5 (b) k= 3 (c) k=1 (d) k= 4
14. If A is a square matrix such that A2 = I, then find the value of (A - 1)3 +
(A+ /)3 - 7A.
(a) 2A (b) 3A (c) A (d) 4
3 −2
15. If A = [ ] find ‘k’ for A2 = kA-2I
4 −2
(a) K= 2 (b) k= 3 (c) k=1 (d) k= 4
2 3 5
16. If A = [ 𝑥 − 2 1 6] is an Upper-Triangular matrix, then find the
6−𝑦 𝑧 4
value of (x + y- z).
(a) 8 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4
17. If all entries of a square matrix of order 2 are either 3, -3 or 0, then
how many non-zero matrices are possible?
(a) 2 (b) zero (c) 1 (d) 4
18. If all the entries of a 3 x 3 Matrix A are either 2 or 6, then how many
DIAGONAL matrices are possible?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4
19. If all the entries of a 3 x 3 Matrix 8 are either O or 1, then how many
SCALAR matrices are possible?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 5
20. If all the entries of a 3 x 3 Matrix C are either O or 1, then how many
IDENTITY matrices are possible?
(a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 1 (d) 4
21. A matrix 'X has 'p' number of elements, where p is a prime
number, then how many orders X can have?
(a) Three (b) two (c) one (d) 4
22. Let A and B are two matrices, such that the order of A is 3 x 4, if A'
B and BA' are both defined then find the order of B.
(a) (4 x 2) (b) 4 x 3 (c) 3 x 4 (d) 3 x 3
23. If A = diag [3 − 5 7], B = diag [−1 2 4] then find (A + 2B).
(a) Diag [1 − 1 15] (b) Diag [1 2 15]
(c) [ 0 3 5 ] (d) none of these
24. Find the value (x + y) from the following matrix equation:
𝑥 5 3 −4 7 6
2[ ]+[ ]=[ ]
7 𝑦−3 1 2 15 14
(a) 11 (b) 8 (c) 5 (d) 0
2 3 1 0
25. Find Matrix A where, A = [ ][ ]
1 4 2 −1
8 −3 3 8 4 5
(a) [ ] (b) [ ] (c) [ ] (d) none of these
9 −4 1 5 −2 8

TWO MARKS QUESTIONS

𝑥+3 4 5 4
1. 𝐼𝑓 [ ]=[ ] 𝑓ⅈ𝑛𝑑 𝑥 𝑎𝑛 𝑑 𝑦.
𝑦−4 𝑥+𝑦 3 9
2. 𝑓ⅈ𝑛 𝑑 th ⅇ 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢ⅇ 𝑜𝑓 𝑎23 + 𝑎32 ⅈ𝑛 𝑡ℎⅇ 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑟ⅈ𝑥 𝐴 = [𝑎𝑖𝑗 ]3×3 𝑤ℎⅇ𝑟ⅇ
|2ⅈ − 𝑗| ⅈ𝑓 ⅈ > 𝑗
𝑎𝑖𝑗 = {
−ⅈ + 2𝑗 + 3 ⅈ𝑓 ⅈ ≤ 𝑗
3. If B be a 4 x 5 type matrix, then what is the number of elements
in the third column.
5 2 3 6
4. If A = [ ] 𝑎𝑛 𝑑 𝐵 = [ ] 𝑓ⅈ𝑛𝑑 3𝐴 − 2𝐵
0 9 0 −1
ⅈ 0 0 ⅈ
5. If A = [ ] 𝑎𝑛 𝑑 𝐵 = [ ] find AB
0 −ⅈ ⅈ 0

6. If A is a square matrix, then show that

(a) (A +AT) is symmetric matrix.
(b) (A - A7) is symmetric matrix.
(c) (AAT) is symmetric matrix.
7. Show that every square matrix can be expressed as the sum of a
symmetric and a skew- symmetric matrix.
8. If A and Bare two symmetric matrices of same order, then show that
 (i) (AB - BA) is skew-symmetric Matrix.
(ii) (AB + BA) is symmetric Matrix.

9. If A and B are symmetric matrices, show that AB is symmetric, if AB = BA.

𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝑥 − 𝑠ⅈ𝑛 𝑥
10. If A = [ ] then prove that
𝑠ⅈ𝑛 𝑥 𝑐𝑜𝑠 𝜘
𝑐𝑜𝑠 3𝑥 − 𝑠ⅈ𝑛 3𝑥
𝐴3 = [ ]
𝑠ⅈ𝑛 3𝑥 𝑐𝑜𝑠 3𝑥
5 2 3 6
11. If 𝐴 = [ ] 𝑎𝑛 𝑑 𝐵 = [ ] 𝑓ⅈ𝑛𝑑 3𝐴 − 2𝐵
0 9 0 −1
2 −3 1 0
12. If 𝐴 = [ ] 𝑎𝑛 𝑑 𝐵 = [ ] 𝑓ⅈ𝑛 𝑑 (𝐴 + 𝐵)𝑇
−7 5 2 −6
13. Match the following:
Possible Number of Matrices (An) of order 3 x 3 with entry O or 1 which
are

14.

15.

16.

17.
1.

2.

3.

4.

5.
1.

2.

3.
 Case Study-2

If the unit Sale price of Pencil, Eraser and Sharpener are ₹ 2.50, ₹ 1.50 and ₹ 1.00
respectively, and unit cost of the above three commodities are ₹ 2.00, ₹ 1.00 and ₹
0.50 respectively, then, based on the above information answer the following:
(a) Total revenue of market A
(b) Total revenue of market B
(c) Cost incurred in market A
(d) Profit in market A and B respectively are
(e) Gross profit in both market

ASSERTION AND REASON

1.In the following questions, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a
statement of Reason (R). Mark the correct choice as.
(A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
(B) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(C) A is true but R is false
(D) A is False and R is True.

𝟕 𝟎 𝟎
Ii)Assertion (A): [𝟎 𝟕 𝟎] 𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒙.
𝟎 𝟎 𝟕
Reason (R): If all the elements of the principal diagonal are equal, it is called a
scalar matrix.