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1. If A is a square matrix such that A2 = I then A is called (a) unit matrix (b) symmetric (c) nilpotent (d) involutary 2. If A = 0 4 , then A2 = 0 0

(a) (b) (c) (d)

0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 1 0 0

2 3. If A = 0 0 (a) 16 (b) 32 (c) 4 (d) 8 4. If

0 2 0

0 1 0 and B = 0 2 0

2 1 0

3 3 then det of AB has the value 2

1k 2 3 1+k 1+k 2 3 1 k 1k 2 3 1 + k 1+k 2 3 1 k 1+k 2 3 1k

+ A=

2 0

0 2

, then A =

(a) (b) (c) (d)

5. If A is 3 3 matrix and B is its ad joint matrix . If the determinant of B is 64, then the determinant of A is (a) 4 (b) (c) 8 (d) 4 1 6. If A = 2 and B = [1 2 3] then R(AB) = 3 (a) 3 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) 1 7. If A is a matrix of order m n, then R(A) is less than or equal to (a) n (b) maximum of m and n (c) minimum of m and n (d) m 1 2 3 4 is 2, then the value of x is 8. The rank of a matrix A = 0 x 1 1 1 (a) 4 (b) 3 (c) 6 (d) 5 9. The value of x and y, if (a) x = 4 , y = -5 (b) x = 4 , y = 5 (c) x = 4 , y = 3 (d) x = 1 , y = 2 10. In the system AX = 0, if the number of equations is less than the number of unknowns then the system has (a) no solution (b) zero solution (c) non-trivial solution (d) trivial solution 2 11. Characteristic equation of A = 2 0 (a) 3 1312 = 0 (b) 3 13+12 = 0 (c) 3 15+12 = 0 (d) 3 +15+12 = 0 12. Eigen values of A = (a) 1,2 (b) 0,1 (c) - 1, -2 (d) 2,3 13. If is an eigen value of a matrix A, then k is na eigen value of (a) kA (b) A (c) -kA (d) (kA)-1 14. The normalized eigen vector for the eigen vector X = (1 , 4 ) is (a) (1/ 17, 1/ 17 ) (b) (1/ 17, 4/ 17 ) (c) (-1/ 17, 4/ 17 ) (d) (1/ 17, 4/ 17 ) 15. The eigen vector corresponding to the eigen value is (a) Dependent (b) independent (c) not unique (d) unique 0 0 0 0 16. The characteristic equation of the matrix A = 0 0 (a) 3 = 0 (b) 3 = 6 (c) 3 = 1 (d) 3 + = 0 17. If 1 , 2 , 3 are the latent roots of a square matrix A , then the latent roots of A2 are (a) 1 2 ,2 2 ,3
2

0 1 1 0

x y

5 4

2 7 1 2 is 1 3

1 0 3 2

are

6 0 is 0

(b) 1/1, 1/2, 1/3 (c) 1 2 ,2 2 ,3

2

(d) 1/1 , 1/2 , 1/3 18. If a square matrix A of order n has n linearly independent eigen vectors, then a matrix B can be found such that is a diagonal matrix (a) - B1 AB (b) A B1 B (c) B1 AB (d) B1 A 19. If the eigen vector of A is X = (a) X (b) X3 (c) - X2 (d) X2 20. If D is the diagonal matrix with eigen values of A as the principal diagonal elements then D is (a) spectral matrix (b) Null matrix (c) Model matrix (d) Unit matrix 1 2 then eigen vector of A2 is