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Term End Examination - Model Question Paper Pattern

Course :MAT202- Linear Algebra
Max. Time : Three Hours PART A (10 x 3 = 30 Marks) Answer ALL Questions 1. Solve the system by Gauss elimination method 2y+4z = 2 ; x+2y +2 z = 3 ; 3x + 4y+6z =-1. Max.Marks : 100

1 4 1 1 2 by Gauss-Jordan Method. 2. Find the inverse of A = 1 1 1 1

3. Find an interpolating polynomial in the plane R 2 , for the given points (0,3), (1,0), (-1,2), (3,6) 4. Examine whether { (1,2,1), (0,1,2), ( 2,7,4)} is linearly independent. 5. Does the vector (3,-1,0,-1)belong to the subspace spanned by the vectors(2,-1,3,2), (-1,1,1,-3) and (1,1,9,-5)? 6. Find the matrix of reflection about the line y = 3 x in R 2 . 7. Is the linear transformation T on R 3 given by T ( x, y , z ) = (2 x,4 x y ,2 x + 3 y z ) invertible? Justify the answer. 8. Let = {(1,2), (1,3)} be a basis for R 2 . Find its dual basis. 9. Decide ( x1 , x2 ), ( y1 , y 2 ) = x1 y 2 x2 y1 is an inner product in R2 ? 10. Find the orthogonal projection of (1,2,1) onto (2,1,-1) in Rn with the Euclidean inner product.

PART B ( 5 x 14 = 70 Marks) Answer any FIVE out of Seven

2 x1 + x 2 + x3 = 1
11. a) Solve the sytem of linear equation 4 x1 + x 2 + x 4 = 2 2 x1 + 2 x 2 + x3 + x 4 = 7 by using an LU factorization.

b) Determine the condition on a,b & c so that the following system has no solution

x + 2y + 6z = a 2x - 3y - 2z = b 3x - y + 4z = c 12. Let Pn( R ) be the set of polynomials of degree n with real coefficients. Is Pn( R ) a vector space with usual addition and multiplication by a scalar, of polynomials?

13. a) Let V be a vector space and let x , y be vectors in V. Then prove 1) x + y = y implies x = 0 2) 0x = 0, 3) k0 = 0 for any k R, 4) x is unique and x = (-1)x , 5) if kx =0, then k = 0 or x = 0 b) Let W be the subspace of R 4 spanned by the vectors w1 = (1,2,5,3), w2 = (0,1,1,4), w3 = (1,0,1,0) .Find a basis for W and extend it to a basis for R 4 14. a) Let V and W be two subspaces of R n , = {v1 , v 2 ,....v k } and = {w1 , w2 ,..., wl } be bases for
V and W respectively .Let Q be the matrix [ v1v 2 .....v k w1 w2 .....wl ] n( k +l ) , then prove

i) C (Q ) = V + W , so that a basis for the column space of C (Q ) is a basis for V + W ii) N (Q ) can be identified with V W so that dim(V W ) = dim N (Q ) b)Let V and W be two subspaces of R 5 with bases v1=(1,3.-2,2,3) , v2=(1,4,-3,4,2), V3= (1,3,0,2,3) and w1=(2,3,-1,-2,9) w2=(1,5,-6,6,1) for V+W and V W. 15. a) Let T : V W be a linear transformation from a n-dimensional vector space V to a mdimensional vector space W with fixed ordered bases = {v1 , v 2 ,....v n } and = {w1 , w2 ,..., wm } respectively. Then prove for this bases there w3= (2,4,4,2,8) respectively. Find bases

 corresponds a unique associated matrix [T ] for T such that [T ( x )] = [T ] [ x ]

4 2 1 3 2 b) Let M = 0 1 3 , Find the unique linear transformation T:R R so that M is the

1 1 1 1 1 associated matrix of T with respect to the bases 1 = 0, 1, 1 and 2 = , also 0 1 0 0 1

find T(x,y,z).

16. a) Find a straight line y=a+bx that fits best the given data, (1,0) , (2,3) , (3,4) and (4,4). b) Use the Gram Schmidt orthogonalization on the Euclidean space R4 to transform the basis (0,1,1,0), (-1,1,0,0), (1,2,0,-1), (-1,0,0,-1) } into an orthonormal basis. 17. Let T:R3 R3 be the linear transformation defined by T(x1,x2,x3)=(2x1+x2,x1+x2+3x3,-x2). Let = {e1 , e2 , e3 } be the standard basis for R3 and let be another basis consisting of v1 = (1,0,0), v 2 = (2,1,0) and v3 = (1,1,1) .Find the associated matrix [T ] and [T ] .Also show that T (v j ) is the linear combination of vectors in with the entries of j-th column of [T ] as its coefficients for j=1,2,3.

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