Matrix Algebra and Multiplication Properties - Class XII

Comprehensive quiz covering matrix multiplication properties, inverse matrices, determinants, special matrix types (diagonal, orthogonal, skew-symmetric), and matrix algebra operations suitable for class-XII mathematics.

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Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A=\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 1 & 1 \ 1 & 1 & 1 \ 1 & 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ then $A^n=\begin{bmatrix} 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} \ 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} \ 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} & 3^{n-1} \end{bmatrix}$ , $n \in N$

  1. True
  2. False
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A = \begin{bmatrix}1\ 2\ 3
\end{bmatrix}$ then $AA^{1}$.

  1. $40$
  2. $\begin{bmatrix} 1\\ 4\\ 3 \end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & 3\\ 2 & 4 & 6\\ 3 & 6 & 9\end{bmatrix}$
  4. None of these
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If for the matrix $A.A^3=1$, then $A^{-1}=$

  1. $A^2$
  2. $A^3$
  3. $A$
  4. none of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $A$ be a square matrix such that $A^2 = A$ and $|A| \neq 0$, then choose the correct option.

(A' represents transpose of matrix A)

  1. $A = A'$
  2. $A = -A'$
  3. $A' =-I$
  4. $A = -I$
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For two matrices $A$ and $B$, if $AB=0$, then

  1. $A=0$ and $B=0$
  2. $A=0$ or $B=0$
  3. it is not necessary that $A=0$ or $B=0$
  4. all above are false
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

For any non-singular matrix A, $ \displaystyle A^{-1} $ =

  1. $|A|adj A$
  2. $\dfrac{1}{|A| adj A}$
  3. $\dfrac{adj A}{|A|}$
  4. None of the above
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A=\begin{bmatrix} \cos { \alpha  }  & -\sin { \alpha  }  \ \sin { \alpha  }  & \cos { \alpha  }  \end{bmatrix}$, $B=\begin{bmatrix} \cos { 2\beta  }  & \sin { 2\beta  }  \ \sin { 2\beta  }  & -\cos { 2\beta  }  \end{bmatrix}$, where 0 < $\beta$ < ${ \pi  }/{ 2 }$, then prove that $BAB=$ ${ A }^{ -1 }$.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $A$ be a $3\times 2$ matrix with real entries. Let $H = A(A^{T}A)^{-1}A^{T}$ where $A^{T}$ is the transpose of $A$ and let $I$ be the identity matrix of order $3\times 3$. Then

  1. $H^{2} = I$
  2. $H^{2} = -I$
  3. $H^{2} = H$
  4. $H^{2} = -H$
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A^3 = 0$ then $1 + A + A^2$ is equal to

  1. I + A
  2. $(I + A)^{-1}$
  3. I - A
  4. $(I - A)^{-1}$
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Find the number of all possible ordered sets of two $(n\times n)$ matrices A and B for which $AB-BA=$$I$.

  1. Infinite
  2. $n^2$
  3. $n!$
  4. Zero
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\omega$ is the complex cube root of unity, then inverse of $\begin{bmatrix} \omega  & 0 & 0 \ 0 & { \omega  }^{ 2 } & 0 \ 0 & 0 & { \omega  }^{ 2 } \end{bmatrix}$ is

  1. $\begin{bmatrix} -\omega & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & { \omega }& 0 \\ 0 & 0 & { \omega }^{ 2 } \end{bmatrix}$
  2. $\begin{bmatrix} \omega^{2} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & { \omega }& 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\begin{bmatrix} \omega^{3} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & { \omega } & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$
  4. $\begin{bmatrix} \omega & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 & { \omega }^{ 2 } \end{bmatrix}$
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The inverse of the matrix $\begin{bmatrix}1 & 0 & 1\ 0 & 2 & 3\ 1 & 2& 1\end{bmatrix}$ is

  1. $\dfrac {-1}{6} \begin{bmatrix}-4 & 2 & -2\\ 3 & 0 & -3\\ -2 & -2& 2\end{bmatrix}$
  2. $\dfrac {1}{6} \begin{bmatrix}-4 & 2 & -2\\ 3 & 0 & -3\\ -2 & -2& 2\end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\begin{bmatrix}-2 & 1 & -1\\ 1 & 0 & -1\\ -2 & -2& 2\end{bmatrix}$
  4. $\begin{bmatrix}2 & -1 & 1\\ -1 & 0 & 1\\ 2 & 2& -2\end{bmatrix}$
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A =$\left[ \begin{matrix} i \ 0 \end{matrix}\begin{matrix} 0 \ -1 \end{matrix} \right] $, than check whether: ${{\text{A}}^2} =  - {\text{I,(}}{{\text{i}}^2} =  - 1)$

  1. True
  2. False
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A = \left[ \begin{array}{l}\cos \theta ,,,,\sin \theta \ - \sin \theta ,,,\cos \theta \end{array} \right]$ where $\theta  = \frac{{2\pi }}{{19}}$ then ${A^{2017}} = $

  1. $A$
  2. ${A^3}$
  3. ${A^5}$
  4. $i$
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A and B are matrices of the same order, then $\displaystyle :\left ( A+B \right )^{2}= A^{2}+2AB+B^{2}$ is possible, iff

  1. AB= I
  2. BA= I
  3. AB= BA
  4. none of these
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ and $B$ are any two matices, then  

  1. $AB=BA$
  2. $AB=I$
  3. $AB=0$
  4. $AB$ may or may not be defined
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A^{2}-A+I=0$, then inverse of $A$ is

  1. $A^{-2}$
  2. $A+I$
  3. $I-A$
  4. $A-I$
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

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 multiplication

  1. if $a=b$ or $\theta=n\pi,$ where $n$ is an integer
  2. always
  3. never
  4. if $a\cos { \theta } \neq b\sin { \theta } $
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ and $B$ are two square matrices of order $3 \times  3$ which satisfy $AB = A$ and $BA = B$, then Which of the following is true?

  1. If matrix $A$ is singular, then matrix $B$ is non singular.
  2. If matrix $A$ is nonsingular, then matrix $B$ is singular.
  3. If matrix $A$ is singular, then matrix $B$ is also singular.
  4. Cannot say anything.
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The multiplication of matrices is distributive with respect to the matrix addition.

State true or false.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The inverse of the matrix $\begin{bmatrix}3 & 5 & 7 \ 2 & -3 & 1 \ 1 & 1 & 2\end{bmatrix}$ is $\begin{bmatrix}7 & -3 & 26 \ 3 & 1 & 11 \ -5 & -2 & 0\end{bmatrix}$.
State true or false.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

 In matrices $AB = O$ does not necessarily mean that 

  1. $A=0$
  2. $B=0$
  3. Both $ A = 0$ and $B=0$
  4. all of the above
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If inverse of $A=\left[ \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 & 1 \ 2 & -1 & -1 \ 1 & -1 & 1 \end{matrix} \right] $ is $\cfrac { -1 }{ 6 } \left[ \begin{matrix} -2 & -2 & 0 \ -3 & 0 & \alpha  \ -1 & 2 & -3 \end{matrix} \right] $ then $\alpha=$

  1. $0$
  2. $-3$
  3. $3$
  4. $2$
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $\displaystyle A=\begin{pmatrix}1 &2 \3  &4
\end{pmatrix}$ and $\displaystyle B=\begin{pmatrix}a &0 \0  &b \end{pmatrix} a,b \epsilon N.$Then

  1. there cannot exist any B such that $\displaystyle AB = BA $
  2. there exist more than one but finite number of B's such that $\displaystyle AB = BA$
  3. there exists exactly One B such that $\displaystyle AB = BA$
  4. there exist infinitely many B's such that $\displaystyle AB = BA.$
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ is an invertible square matrix then $|A^{-1}| = ?$

  1. $|A|$
  2. $\dfrac {1}{|A|}$
  3. $1$
  4. $0$
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A = \begin{bmatrix} -2& 3\ 1 & 1\end{bmatrix}$ then $|A^{-1}| = ?$

  1. $-5$
  2. $\dfrac {-1}{5}$
  3. $\dfrac {1}{25}$
  4. $25$
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If matrices $A$ and $B$ anticommute then

  1. $AB = BA$
  2. $AB = -BA$
  3. $(AB) = (BA)^{-1}$
  4. None of these
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Let $A$ and $B$ be two $2 \times 2$ matrices. Consider the statements
          $(i)$ $AB =0 \Rightarrow A = 0 :or :B = 0$
         $ (ii)$ $AB =I \Rightarrow A =B^{-1}$
          $(iii)$ $(A + B)^2 = A^2 + 2AB + B^2$

  1. $(i)$ is false, $(ii)$ and $(iii)$ are true
  2. $(i)$ and $(iii)$ are false, $(ii)$ is true
  3. $(i)$ and $(ii)$ are false, $(iii)$ is true
  4. $(ii)$ and $(iii)$ are false, $(i)$ is true
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A = \begin{bmatrix} 2& -1\ 1 & 3\end{bmatrix}$, then $A^{-1} = ?$

  1. $\begin{bmatrix}\dfrac {3}{7}
    &\dfrac {-1}{7} \\
    \dfrac {1}{7} & \dfrac {2}{7}
    \end{bmatrix}$
  2. $\begin{bmatrix}\dfrac {3}{7}
    &\dfrac {1}{7} \\
    \dfrac {-1}{7} & \dfrac {2}{7}
    \end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\begin{bmatrix}\dfrac {3}{7}
    &\dfrac {1}{7} \\
    \dfrac {1}{7} & \dfrac {2}{7}
    \end{bmatrix}$
  4. None of these
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ and $B$ are invertible square matrices of the same order then $(AB)^{-1} = ?$

  1. $AB^{-1}$
  2. $A^{-1}B$
  3. $A^{-1}B^{-1}$
  4. $B^{-1}A^{-1}$
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ and $B$ are two square matrices of the same order and $m$ is a positive integer, then
$(A + B)^m =$ $^mC _0A^m +$ $^mC _1 A^{m -1} B + ^mC _2A^{m-2} B^2 + ... +$ $^mC _{m- 1} AB^{m-1}+$ $^mC _m B^m$ if

  1. $AB =BA$
  2. $AB + BA =0$
  3. $A^m = 0, \:B^m = 0$
  4. none of these.
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Let $A, : B : and : C$ be $2\times 2$ matrices with entries from the set of real numbers. Define $\ast $ as follows: $\displaystyle A\ast B=\frac{1}{2}(AB + BA)$, then

  1. $A\ast B=B\ast A$
  2. $A\ast A=A^2$
  3. $A\ast (B+C)=A\ast B+A\ast C$
  4. $A\ast I=A$
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If $A$ and $B$ are square matrices of the same order such that $A^2=A,:B^2=B, :AB = BA = 0$, then

  1. $AB^2=0$
  2. $(A + B)^2 = A + B$
  3. $(A - B)^2 = A - B$
  4. none of these.
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A^k=0$ for some value of $k$ and $B=1+A+A^2+...+A^{k-1},$ then $B^{-1}$ equal

  1. $I-A$
  2. $I+A$
  3. $I-A^{k-1}$
  4. None of these
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Let $A, : B : and : C$ be $2\times 2$ matrices with entries from the set of real numbers. Define $\ast $ as follows:
  $\displaystyle A \ast B=\frac{1}{2}(AB,'+A'B)$. Which of the given is true?

  1. $A\ast B= B \ast A$
  2. $A\ast A=A^2$
  3. $A\ast (B+C)=A\ast B+A \ast C$
  4. $A\ast I =A+A'$
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Say true or false:

Let A, B be two matrices such that they commute, then $(AB)^n = A^nB^n$.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If $A$ is a non-singular matrix, then 

  1. ${ A }^{ -1 }$ is symmetric if $A$ is symmetric
  2. ${ A }^{ -1 }$ is skew-symmetric if $A$ is symmetric
  3. $\left| { A }^{ -1 } \right| =\left| A \right| $
  4. $\left| { A }^{ -1 } \right| ={ \left| A \right| }^{ -1 }$
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The inverse of a skew-symmetric matrix of an odd order is

  1. a symmetric matrix
  2. a skew-symmetric matrix
  3. diagonal matrix
  4. does not exists
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $AB=A$ and $BA=B$, where $A$ and $B$ are square matrices, then 

  1. ${ B }^{ 2 }=B$ and ${ A }^{ 2 }=A$
  2. ${ B }^{ 2 }=A$ and ${ A }^{ 2 }=B$
  3. $AB=BA$
  4. none of these
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A=\begin{bmatrix} 0 & 1 \ 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix}$, $B=\begin{bmatrix} 0 & -i \ i & 0 \end{bmatrix}$ then ${(A+B)}^{2}$ equals

  1. ${A}^{2}+{B}^{2}$
  2. ${A}^{2}+{B}^{2}+2AB$
  3. ${A}^{2}+{B}^{2}+AB-BA$
  4. none of these
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $D=diag({d} _{1}, {d} _{2}, {d} _{3}........{d} _{n})$, where ${d} _{1}\ne 0$ for all $i=1, 2,.....n$, then ${D}^{-1}$ is equal to

  1. $D$
  2. ${I} _{n}$
  3. diag $({d} _{1}^{-1}, {d} _{2}^{-1}, ........{d} _{n}^{-1})$
  4. None of these
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If for suitable matrices $A, B$; $AB=A$ and $BA=B$; then ${A}^{2}$ equals-

  1. $I$
  2. $A$
  3. $B$
  4. $0$
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

lf $\mathrm{A}$ is $\left{\begin{array}{lll}
8 & -6 & 2\
-6 & 7 & -4\
2 & -4 & \lambda
\end{array}\right}$  is a singular matrix then  $\lambda =$ 

  1. 3
  2. 4
  3. 2
  4. 5
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\left[\begin{array}{ll}
\mathrm{x} & \mathrm{y}^{3}\
2 & 0
\end{array}\right]=\left[\begin{array}{ll}
1 & 8\
2 & 0
\end{array}\right]$, then  $\left[\begin{array}{ll}
\mathrm{x} & \mathrm{y}\
2 & 0
\end{array}\right]^{-1}$ is equal to

  1. $-\dfrac{1}{4}$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}

    0 &-2\\

    -2 & 1

    \end{array}\right]$
  2. $\dfrac{2}{4}$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}

    1 & 0\\

    0 & 1

    \end{array}\right]$
  3. $\dfrac{1}{4}$$\left[\begin{array}{ll}

    0 & -8\\

    -2 & 1

    \end{array}\right]$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{4}\left[\begin{array} \ 1&4 \\7 &2 \end{array}\right]$
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$p=$ $\begin{bmatrix}
0 & x &0 \
 0& 0 & 1
\end{bmatrix}$, then $p^{-1}$=


  1. Not possible to get an inverse
  2. $\begin{bmatrix}

    x & -a &-bx \\

    0&1 &0 \\

    0&0 &x

    \end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\mathrm{x}$ $\begin{bmatrix}

    x & -a &-bx \\

    0&1 &0 \\

    0&0 &x

    \end{bmatrix}$
  4. $x^{2} \begin{bmatrix}

    x & -a &-bx \\

    0&1 &0 \\

    0&0 &x

    \end{bmatrix}$
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A= $\begin{bmatrix}
cos\alpha  & -sin\alpha \
sin\alpha  & cos\alpha
\end{bmatrix}$ ,then find which of the following are correct 
I) A is singular matrix
II) $A^{-1}$=$A^{T}$
III) A is symmetric matrix
IV) $A^{-1}= -A$

  1. only I and II
  2. only II and III
  3. only II
  4. only IV
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If AB=KI where $\displaystyle K\in R$ then $\displaystyle A^{-1}$= _____

  1. B
  2. KB
  3. $\displaystyle \frac{1}{K}B$
  4. $\displaystyle \frac{1}{K^{2}}B$
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A=$\displaystyle \begin{vmatrix} 5 & -3   \ 4 & 2   \end{vmatrix}$ then find $\displaystyle AA^{-1}$

  1. $\displaystyle \begin{vmatrix} 0 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \end{vmatrix}$
  2. $\displaystyle \begin{vmatrix} -1 & 0 \\ 0 & -1 \end{vmatrix}$
  3. $\displaystyle \begin{vmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 1 \end{vmatrix}$
  4. Does not exist
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $\displaystyle A=\left[ \begin{matrix} \cos { \theta  }  & \sin { \theta  }  \ -\sin { \theta  }  & \cos { \theta  }  \end{matrix} \right] $, then $\displaystyle \underset { n\rightarrow \infty  }{ \lim } \frac { 1 }{ n } { A }^{ n }$ is?

  1. A null matrix
  2. An identity matrix
  3. $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} 0 & 1 \\ -1 & 0 \end{matrix} \right] $
  4. None of these
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A is invertible, then which of the following is not true?

  1. $\displaystyle { A }^{ -1 }={ \left| A \right| }^{ -1 }$
  2. $\displaystyle { \left( { A }^{ 2 } \right) }^{ -1 }={ \left( { A }^{ -1 } \right) }^{ 2 }$
  3. $\displaystyle { \left( { A }^{ ' } \right) }^{ -1 }={ \left( { A }^{ -1 } \right) }^{ ' }$
  4. None of these
Question 51 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following matrices is not invertible?

  1. $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} 1 & 1 \\ 0 & 1 \end{matrix} \right] $
  2. $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} -1 & -1 \\ -1 & 2 \end{matrix} \right] $
  3. $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} 2 & 3 \\ 4 & 6 \end{matrix} \right] $
  4. $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} 2 & -2 \\ 1 & 1 \end{matrix} \right] $
Question 52 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the matrix $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} a \ c \end{matrix}\begin{matrix} b \ d \end{matrix} \right] $ is commutative with the matrix $\displaystyle \left[ \begin{matrix} 1 \ 0 \end{matrix}\begin{matrix} 1 \ 1 \end{matrix} \right] $, then

  1. $a=0, b=c$
  2. $b=0, c=d$
  3. $c=0, d=a$
  4. $d=0, a=b$
Question 53 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Consider two matrix $A = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2\ 2 & 1\ 1 & 1 \end{bmatrix}$ and $ B = \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 2 & -4\  2 & 1 & -4 \end{bmatrix}$. Which one of the following is correct ?

  1. B is the right inverse of A
  2. B is the left inverse of A
  3. B is the both sided inverse of A
  4. None of the above
Question 54 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $A$ is a square matrix of order $3$ and det $A = 5$, then what is det $[(2A)^{-1}]$ equal to?

  1. $\dfrac{1}{10}$
  2. $\dfrac{2}{5}$
  3. $\dfrac{8}{5}$
  4. $\dfrac{1}{40}$
Question 55 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A is a square matrix such that $A^2 = I $ where I is the identity matrix, then what is $A^{-1}$ equal to ?

  1. A + 1
  2. Null matrix
  3. A
  4. Transpose of A
Question 56 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A is an orthogonal matrix of order 3 and $B=\begin{bmatrix}1&2&3\-3&0&2\2&5&0\end{bmatrix}$, then which of the following is/are correct?
1. $|AB|= \pm 47$
2. $AB=BA$
Select the correct answer using the code given below :

  1. 1 only
  2. 2 only
  3. Both 1 and 2
  4. Neither 1 nor 2
Question 57 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A is a non singular matrix satisfying $A=AB-BA$, then which one of the following holds true

  1. $det. B=0$
  2. $B=0$
  3. $det. A=1$
  4. $det(B+I) =det(B-I)$
Question 58 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If A is a square matrix of order 3,then $|Adj\left( Adj{ A }^{ 2 } \right) |=$

  1. ${ |A| }^{ 2 }$
  2. ${ |A| }^{ 4 }$
  3. ${ |A| }^{ 8 }$
  4. ${ |A| }^{ 16 }$
Question 59 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If $AB=0$ for the matrices
$A=\left[ \begin{matrix} \cos ^{ 2 }{ \theta  }  & \cos { \theta  } \sin { \theta  }  \ \cos { \theta  } \sin { \theta  }  & \sin ^{ 2 }{ \theta  }  \end{matrix} \right] $ and $B=\left[ \begin{matrix} \cos ^{ 2 }{ \phi  }  & \cos { \phi  } \sin { \phi  }  \ \cos { \phi  } \sin { \phi  }  & \sin ^{ 2 }{ \phi  }  \end{matrix} \right] $ then $\theta-\phi $ is

  1. an odd multiple of $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
  2. an odd multiple of ${\pi}$
  3. an odd even of $\dfrac{\pi}{2}$
  4. $0$
Question 60 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Let $A$ be a matrix of order $2 \times 2$ such that $A^2 = 0$ then $A^2 - (a + d)A + (ad - bc) I$ is equal to
  1. $I$
  2. $0 _{2\times 2}$
  3. $-I$
  4. none of these
Question 61 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

Let $A$ and $B$ are two matrices such that $AB =BA$, then for every $n\in N$,

  1. $A^nB=BA^n$
  2. $(AB)^n = A^nB^n$
  3. $(A+B)^n=$ $^nC _0A^n+$ $^nC _1A^{n-1}B^1+$ $^nC _2A^{n-2}B^2+ ... + ^nC _n\:B^n$.
  4. $A^{2n}-B^{2n}=(A^n-B^n)(A^n+B^n)$
Question 62 Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)

If $D _1$ and $D _2$ are two $3\times 3$ diagonal matrices, then

  1. $D _1\:D _2$ is diagonal matrix
  2. $D _1\:D _2=D _2\:D _1$
  3. $D _1^2+D _2^2$ is a diagonal matrix
  4. none of these
Question 63 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

if $\begin{bmatrix}2 &1 \ 7 &4 \end{bmatrix}$A$\begin{bmatrix}-3 &2 \ 5 &-3 \end{bmatrix}=\begin{bmatrix}1 &0 \ 0&1 \end{bmatrix}$, then matrix A equals

  1. $\begin{bmatrix}7 &5 \\ -11 &-8 \end{bmatrix}$
  2. $\begin{bmatrix}2 & 1 \\ 5 & 3 \end{bmatrix}$
  3. $\begin{bmatrix}7 & 34 \\ 1 & 5 \end{bmatrix}$
  4. $\begin{bmatrix}5 & 13 \\ 3 & 8 \end{bmatrix}$
Question 64 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Lets $A=\begin{bmatrix} 0&5 \-5 & 0\end{bmatrix}$ be a skew symmetric matrix and $I + A$ is non singular, then the matrix $B = (I - A)(I + A)^{-1}$ is

  1. an Orthogonal Matrix
  2. an Idempotent Matrix
  3. a Nilpotent Matrix
  4. Data Insufficient