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Practice Test_History of Mathematics, Linear and Abstract Algebra

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Practice Test_History of Mathematics, Linear and Abstract Algebra

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Practice Tests in History of Mathematics, Linear and Abstract Algebra

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−3 −1 9 −1 2 3
1. If matrix 𝐴 = [ ] and 𝐵 = [ ], find the 2A – B
4 2 5 6 11 2
−5 −4 15
A. [ ]
1 −7 8
−5 −3 15
B. [ ]
2 −8 8
3 5 8
C. [ ]
2 2 7
−5 −4 15
D. [ ]
2 −9 8

1 9 0 4
2. [ ]∗[ ]
8 −1 −3 1
−27 13
A. [ ]
3 35
1 13
B. [ ]
5 0
1 5
C. [ ]
11 −2
−8 1
D. [ ]
7 5
1 0 3
3. Find the determinants of 𝐴 = [0 −2 5]
4 8 −1
A. −14
B. −13
C. −11
D. 14
𝑚−2 𝑚+5
4. What is the value of m that will satisfy | |
2𝑚 5
A. 𝑚 = 7
B. 𝑚 = 9
C. 𝑚 = 2
D. 𝑚 = 5
5. What is the dimension of the matrix [1 2 3]?
A. 1 × 1
B. 1 × 3
C. 3 × 2
D. 2 × 2
6. Which of the following is a 3 × 3 upper triangular matrix?
1 0 1
A. [0 1 0]
0 0 1
1 3 0
B. [0 1 0]
0 0 1
1 0 1
C. [0 1 0]
1 0 1
1 0 0
D. [5 1 0]
4 3 1
−7 3 2 4 7 5
7. Perform the indicated operation on matrix [ ]+[ ]
8 −3 1 1 11 −1
−3 10 7
A. [ ]
9 1 0
−2 1 7
B. [ ]
9 8 0
−3 10 7
C. [ ]
9 8 0
−11 −4 −3
D. [ ]
7 −14 2

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6 8
8. Find the determinant of | |
5 −2
A. −51
B. −52
C. 28
D. −42
9. What is 20 +15 on a 12-hour clock?
A. 9: 00
B. 11: 00
C. 12: 00
D. 10: 00
10. What is the remainder of 74 on a 12-hour clock?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 5
D. 1
𝑥 𝑥−𝑦 3 1
11. Find the value of x and y. [𝑥 + 𝑦 5𝑥 ] = [5 15]
A. 𝑥 = 5; 𝑦 = 2
B. 𝑥 = 3; 𝑦 = 2
C. 𝑥 = 2; 𝑦 = 3
D. 𝑥 = 3 ; 𝑦 = 1
12. Which of the following is an identity matrix?
1 0 0
A. [0 1 0]
0 0 1
1 1 1
B. [0 0 0]
0 0 0
1 0 1
C. [0 1 0]
1 0 1
1 0 0
D. [0 1 0]
0 3 1
13. What do you call the rectangular array of numbers, symbols, or expressions, arranged in rows
and columns?
A. Matrices
B. Linear
C. Identity
D. Scalar
14. Is a type of matrix where all of its elements below the principal diagonal are zero or all of its
elements above the principal diagonal are zero?
A. Rectangular Matrix
B. Transpose of a Matrix
C. Triangular Matrix
D. Scalar Matrix
15. He proved the famous formula 𝑒 𝑖𝜋 + 1 = 0
A. Leonhard Euler
B. Rene Descartes
C. Charles Babbage
D. Roger Bacon
16. This great Greek mathematician from 287-212 BC, is very famous for his attempts at the
measurement of the circle.
A. Thales
B. Plato
C. Eratosthenes
D. Archimedes
17. This man is sometimes called as the Islamic Father of Algebra.
A. Al-Khwarizmi
B. Al-Hindin
C. Banu Musa brothers
D. Hunayn ibn Ishaq

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18. They are believed to be the first to discover zero and used it as a place holder in positional base
notation and 10th place value method.
A. Babylonian
B. Egyptian
C. Indian
D. Chinese
19. An 18th century Swiss Mathematician, he introduced the “Law of Large Numbers” in his (The Art
of Conjecture). Who was he?
A. Jacob Bernoulli
B. Bertrand Russel
C. Stephen Baldwin
D. Girolamo Cardano
20. Who published a treatise on trigonometry which contains the earliest use of our abbreviation: sin,
tan, sec, for sine, tangent and secant?
A. Albert Gerard
B. John Napier
C. Johann Herdde
D. Gregorio de Saint
21. He was been described as the greatest “might have been” in the history of mathematics.
A. Blaise Pascal
B. Gregorio de Saint
C. Gaspard Monge
D. Bonaventura Cavalier
22. He summed the integers from 1 to 100 instantly by spotting that the sum was 50 pairs of numbers
each pair summing to 101 at the age of 7.
A. Augustin Cauchy
B. Carl Friedrich Gauss
C. Karl Wierstrass
D. George Boole
23. Who devised the method of solving linear equations through determinants?
A. George Cantor
B. Gabriel Cramer
C. David Hilbert
D. Johannes Kepler
24. Who is the first man to introduce the radical sign?
A. Christoff Rudolf
B. John Wallis
C. Brahmagupta
D. Gino Fano
25. He was the first to use dot to indicate multiplication of algebraic terms in 1686.
A. Gottfried Leibniz
B. John Wallis
C. Johannes Kepler
D. Gaspard Monge
26. An Arabic author used horizontal line between the dividend and divisor as we today.
A. Arthur Wynne
B. George Polya
C. Al – Hassar
D. Simon Stevin
27. He is famous on his studies on conic sections.
A. William Oughtred
B. Archimedes
C. Thales of Miletus
D. Apollonius of Perga
28. The first man who introduced the greater than and less than symbols in 1631.
A. Thomas Harriot
B. Simon Stevin
C. Pythagoras
D. Leonardo of Pisa

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29. Famous for his introduction of logarithms.
A. Arabs
B. John Napier
C. Henry Briggs
D. Aristotle
30. He devised the formula for polar coordinate and complex numbers.
A. De Moivre
B. Pierre de Fermat
C. Marin Mersenne
D. Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan

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Finella Marie Yap Cawaling


Lecturer

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