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(a) Symmetric (b) Nilpotent (c) Skew-symmetric (d) Orthogonal 2 2 2. A = 1 3 1 2 (a) Orthogonal (b) Involutary (c) Idempotent matrix (d) Nilpotent 1989 1990 1991 3. The value of the determinant 1992 1993 1994 is 1995 1996 1997 (a) 1 (b) -1 (c) 2 (d) 0 4. If A = 1 0 0 ,B= 1 0 1 1 and C = 0 cos sin then sin cos 4 4 is 3

(a) C = A cos - B sin (b) C = A sin - B cos (c) C = A cos + B sin (d) C = A sin + B cos 5. If A = 3 2 and B = 5 6 1 3 are such that 2A + 3B + X =0 , then X = 2 5

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6. If det A = 0, then A is said to be (a) non singular matrix (b) symmetric matrix (c) unit matrix (d) singular matrix 1 0 7. What is the rank of A = 0 1 0 0 (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) 3 8. Nullity of the matrix is equal to (a) No. of rows - rank (b) No. of columns + rank (c) No. of columns - rank (d) No. of rows + rank

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9. For 4 5 matrix the sum of its rank and nullity is (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 3 (d) 5 10. The necessary and sucient condition for the inverse of a matrix A is (a) |A| = 0 (b) |A| = 0 (c) |A| = 1 (d) |A| = -1 11. Characteristic equation of a matrix A is (a) ( A - I ) = 0 (b) A - I = 0 (c) ( A - ) = 0 (d) |A I| = 0 12. The eigen values of a triangular matrix are (a) linearly dependent (b) linearly independent (c) the elements of its secondary diagonal elements (d) the elements of its diagonal elements 13. Product of the eigen values of a matrix A is equal to its (a) |A | (b) |A1 | (c) - |A | (d) |Adj. A | 2 14. The normalized form of eigen vector for 1 is 1 2 (a) 1/ 6 1 1 2 (b) 1/ 6 1 1 2 (c) 1/ 6 1 1 2 (d) 1/ 6 1 1 15. If all the eigen values of a matrix A are distinct, then the corresponding eigen vectors are (a) linearly independent (b) linearly dependent (c) innite (d) positive 16. If A = 1 4 2 3 , then by Cayley-Hamilton theorem A2 =

(a) - 4A - 5I (b) 4A + 5I (c) 4A - 5I (d) 5A + 4I 17. If the characteristic equation of the square matrix A is 2 - 4 = 0 then A4 = ( where I is the second order unit matrix ) (a) 64 I (b) I (c) 16 I (d) 4 I 18. The matrix B, which diagonalise a matrix A, constitute the (a) eigen (b) linear dependent (c) linear independent (d) Unit 19. If 2, 3, 4 8 (a) 0 0 2 (b) 0 0 8 (c) 0 0 2 (d) 0 0 20. If X1 = (a) (b) (c) (d) 2 1 are the eigen values of matrix A and A3 = BD3 B 1 then D3 = 0 0 27 0 0 64 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 4 0 0 27 0 0 4 2 3 3 1 , X2 = 1 1 are the eigen vectors of A , then modal matrix of A is vectors of A.

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