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Problem 1. Determine whether the following matrices determine cyclic linear transformations T : R3
R3 . (In each case, either produce a vector b such that {b, T (b), T 2 (b)} is a basis, or show that no such b can
exist).
1 2 3
(a) A = 0 1 2 .
0 0 1
0 0 2
(b) B = 0 2 0 .
1 0 7
Problem 3. (a) Solve the following homogeneous system of equations over the field R:
x
1 2 2 3 0
y
Ax = 2 4 2 0 z
= 0 .
1 2 4 3 0
w
(b) Solve the inhomogeneous equations Ax = b and Ax = c for the same matrix and the following vectors:
6 6
b= 6 c = 6 .
6 0
Problem 4. Solve the following system of equations over the finite field F5 = Z/5Z by row reduction; here
a denotes the equivalence class a + 5Z. As youre doing your computations, you should write everything in
terms of the elements 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.
2 2 0 x 0
3 4 2 y = 1 .
3 0 4 z 2