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Syllabus: Matrices, determinants, System of linear equations, Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, LU decomposition.

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Previous GATE Questions in Linear Algebra

5 votes
8 answers
2
The product of all eigenvalues of the matrix $\left[\begin{array}{lll}1 & 2 & 3 \\ 4 & 5 & 6 \\ 7 & 8 & 9\end{array}\right]$ is$-1$$0$$1$$2$
47 votes
14 answers
10
18 votes
5 answers
11
Consider the following matrix.$$\begin{pmatrix} 0 & 1 & 1 & 1\\ 1& 0& 1 & 1\\ 1& 1 & 0 & 1 \\1 & 1 & 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$The largest eigenvalue of the above matrix is __...
26 votes
4 answers
14
24 votes
6 answers
16
Consider a matrix $A= uv^T$ where $u=\begin{pmatrix}1 \\ 2 \end{pmatrix} , v = \begin{pmatrix}1 \\1 \end{pmatrix}$. Note that $v^T$ denotes the transpose of $v$. The larg...
33 votes
2 answers
18
Let $P = \begin{bmatrix}1 & 1 & -1 \\2 & -3 & 4 \\3 & -2 & 3\end{bmatrix}$ and $Q = \begin{bmatrix}-1 & -2 &-1 \\6 & 12 & 6 \\5 & 10 & 5\end{bmatrix}$ be two matrices.Th...