# Recent questions tagged matrices

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The matrices $\begin{bmatrix} \cos\theta &-\sin \theta \\ \sin \theta & cos \theta \end{bmatrix}$ and $\begin{bmatrix} a & 0 \\ 0 & b \end{bmatrix}$ commute under the multiplication if $a=b \text{(or)} \theta =n\pi, \: n$ is an integer always never if $a\cos \theta \neq b\sin \theta$
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If product of matrix $A=\begin{bmatrix}\cos^{2}\theta &\cos \theta \sin \theta \\ \cos \theta \sin \theta &\sin ^{2} \theta& \end{bmatrix}$ and $B=\begin{bmatrix}\cos^{2}\phi &\cos \phi \sin \phi \\ \cos \phi \sin \phi &\sin ^{2} \phi& \end{bmatrix}$ is a ... and $\phi$ differ by an odd multiple of $\pi$ even multiple of $\pi$ odd multiple of $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$ even multiple of $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
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$M$ is a square matrix of order $’n’$ and its determinant value is $5.$ If all the elements of $M$ are multiplied by $2,$ its determinant value becomes $40.$ The value of $’n’$ is $2$ $3$ $5$ $4$
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$M$ is a square matrix of order $’n’$ and its determinant value is $5.$ If all the elements of $M$ are multiple by $2,$ its determinant value becomes $40.$ The value of $’n’$ is $2$ $3$ $5$ $4$
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Let $A,B,C,D$ be $n\times n$ matrices, each with non-zero determinant. If $ABCD=1$, then $B^{-1}$ is: $D^{-1}C^{-1}A^{-1}$ $CDA$ $ADC$ Does not necessarily exist.
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Consider two matrices $M_1$ and $M_2$ with $M_1^*M_2=0$ and $M_1$ is non singular. Then which of the following is true? $M_2$ is non singular $M_2$ is null matrix $M_2$ is the identity matrix $M_2$ is transpose of $M_1$
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Let $A$ and $B$ be two $n \times n$ matrices over real numbers. Let rank($M$) and $\text{det}(M)$ denote the rank and determinant of a matrix $M$, respectively. Consider the following statements. $\text{rank}(AB) = \text{rank }(A) \text{rank }(B)$ ... Which of the above statements are TRUE? I and II only I and IV only II and III only III and IV only
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Let $A$ be am $n\times n$ invertible matrix with real entries whose column sums are all equal to $1$. Consider the following statements: Every column in the matrix $A^{2}$ sums to $2$ Every column in the matrix $A^{3}$ sums to $3$ Every column in the matrix $A^{-1}$ ... $(3)$ is correct but not statements $(1)$ or $(2)$ all the $3$ statements $(1),(2),$ and $(3)$ are correct
If $M$ is a $3 \times 3$ matrix such that $\begin{bmatrix} 0 & 1 & 2 \end{bmatrix}M=\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0 & 0 \end{bmatrix}$ and $\begin{bmatrix}3 & 4 & 5 \end{bmatrix} M = \begin{bmatrix}0 & 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix}$ then $\begin{bmatrix}6 & 7 & 8 \end{bmatrix}M$ is ... $\begin{bmatrix}0 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ $\begin{bmatrix} -1 & 2 & 0 \end{bmatrix}$ $\begin{bmatrix} 9 & 10 & 8 \end{bmatrix}$
Suppose that $A$ is a $3 \times 3$ real matrix such that for each $u=(u_1, u_2, u_3)’ \in \mathbb{R}^3, \: u’Au=0$ where $u’$ stands for the transpose of $u$. Then which one of the following is true? $A’=-A$ $A’=A$ $AA’=I$ None of these