WORKSHEET # 1

Week 1: Introduction to Linear Algebra

NAME


STUDENT NUMBER

Instructions: This shall serve as your proof of attendance for this meeting. Write what is asked of you
on the space provided beside each item.
Vectors and Matrices
The following examples illustrate a vector:

1 2 3 4
5
6
7
8
A
B
= (

(
(
(
=
(
(
(



Question 1: Give a possible definition of a vector.

The following illustrate a matrix:

1 2 3 4
a b c d
C
a d g
D b e h
c f i
(
=
(

(
(
=
(
(



Question 2: Give a possible definition of a matrix.

Question 1:











Question 2:




Vector Operations
Consider the two vectors X and Y. Vector addition is done below.

1 5
2 6
3 7
6 4 4
8 4 4
10 4 4
X Y
X Y X Y Y X
( (
( (
= =
( (
( (

( ( (
( ( (
+ = = =
( ( (
( ( (

Question 3: Generalize the addition and subtraction process
for vectors.

Question 4: Is it possible to add or subtract a row vector to a
column vector, and vice versa? Why or why not?

There are two types of multiplication operations for
vectors/matrices: scalar and matrix multiplication.

For scalar multiplication: For the given matrix A, scalar
multiplication results when the scalar k is multiplied to every
element of A.



1 2 9 10
3 4 11 12
5 6 13 14
7 8 15 16
A
(
(

(
=
(

(
(



Question 5: Give the result when 3 is multiplied to matrix A.

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For matrix multiplication: If X is an m n and Y is an n p matrix,
then the product of X and Y, XY = Z is an n p matrix. The elements
of the ith row and the jth column of Z will be:

=
=

1
n
ij ik kj
k
z a b

1 2 2 4

3 4 3 1
X Y
( (
= =
( (

Question 6: Give the result of XY (matrix Z).

Question 7: What will be the size of the product matrix when a
3-element row vector is multiplied by a 3-element column
vector?

Question 8: What will be the size of the product matrix when a
3 4 matrix is multiplied by a 5 2 matrix?

On matrix transposition: For a given matrix A with an element in
the ith row and jth column, the transpose of A will have the same
element in the jth row and the ith column.

Question 9: What will be the transpose of the given matrix A and
vector B?

(
(
= = (
(
(

1 5
2 6 5 6 7 8
3
e
A m B
a d


On matrix exponentiation: Matrix exponentiation is matrix
multiplication carried out using the same matrix n number of times,
where n is exponent of the matrix.

Question 10: Using matrix A given in question 9, what will be the
result of A
2
?

Question 11: Using vector B in question 9, is it possible to
determine B
2
? Why? Explain.

Question 12: If X is a matrix to be multiplied to vector B in
question 9, what must this matrix be in order to obtain a row vector
containing the square of the elements of vector B, i.e.

BX = [25 36 49 64]

What will be the product if order of multiplication is interchanged,
i.e. XB?
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Question 11:


Question 12: