TWPT Matrices – 1
1. In the following, scalar matrix is :
3 1 0 2 8. For any square matrix, A, A AT is :
(a) 1 3 (b) 2 0 (a) Zero matrix
(b) symmetric matrix
3 0 3 0 (c) skew symmetric matrix
(c) 0 3 (d) 0 1 (d) none of these
2. In the following diagonal matrix is : 9. For any square matric A, A AT is :
0 3 1 0 0 (a) unit matrix
(a) 4 0 (b) 0 2 0 (b) symmetric matrix
(c) skew symmetric matrix
1 0 0 3 0 (d) zero matrix
(c) 0 0 1 (d) 0 4
1 2 3
3. In the following unit matrix is : 10. If A 2 2 4 , then A2 is :
1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 4 3
(a) 1 1 (b) 1 0 (c) 0 1 (d) 0 0
(a) symmetric
(b) skew symmetric
7 0 0 (c) both symmetric and skew symmetric
4. Matrix 0 5 0 is a : (d) neither symmetric nor skew symmetric
0 0 3
1 1 2
(a) scalar matrix (b) diagonal matrix 11. If A , then A 2A is :
(c) unit matrix (d) zero matrix 1 1
5. In the following upper triangular matrix is : (a) unit matrix (b) A
(c) zero matrix (d) scalar matrix
1 0 0 5 4 2
12. If for a square matrix A [aij ], aij i 2 j 2 then A is :
(a) 0 2 0 (b) 0 0 3
3 0 3 0 0 1 (a) unit matrix
(b) zero matrix
2 1 (c) symmetric matrix
0 2 3
(c) 0 0 4 (d) 0 3 (d) skew symmetric matrix
0 0
2
6. In the following, symmetric matrix is : 13. If A 1 and B [1 2 3] , then AB equals :
a x y a x y 3
x b z
(a) (b) x b z
y z c y 0 c 2 4 6 2
1 2 3 2
(a) (b) (c) [2 2 9] (d) [13]
a x y 0 x y 3 6 9 9
x 0 z
(c) (d) x 0 z
y z 0 y z 0 a b
14. If A , then adj A equals :
c d
7. In the following skew symmetric matrix is :
d b d c d b d b
a x y a x y (a) c a (b) b a (c) c
x a (d) c a
(a) b z
(b) x b z
y z c y 0 c
1 0 0 0
15. If A , B 0 1 , then :
0 x y 0 x y 0 0
x 0 z
(c) (d) x 0 z (a) AB 0, BA 0 (b) AB 0, BA 0
y z 0 y z 0
(c) AB 0 BA (d) AB 0, BA 0
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16. If A is a square matrix, then A (adj A) equals : 24. For any matrix A, AAT is :
(a) |A| (b) I (c) |A|I (d) 0
(a) unit matrix
2 3 (b) symmetric matrix
3 2 1
17. If A 5 0 2 , B 4 5 , then : (c) skew symmetric matrix
1 0 (d) diagonal matrix
(a) AB and BA both exist
(b) AB exists but BA does not exist 1 1 1 0 1 0
25. If A 0 1 , B 0 0 , then 1 0 is equal to :
(c) BA exists but AB does not exist
(d) Both BA and AB do not exist (a) AB (b) BAT (c) AT BT (d) ABT
If A
1 0 0 0 26. If A and B are matrices of order 3 2 and C is of order
18. , B 1 0 , then :
0 0 2 3 , then which of the following matrices is not
(a) AB = 0, BA = 0 (b) AB 0, BA 0 defined?
(c) AB 0, BA 0 (d) AB 0, BA 0 (a) AT B (b) AT BT (c) AT C (d) B CT
2 1 1
19. If A
1 6 2
, B 2 , then AB is equal to : 27. If A 2 2 and A2 3B 0 , then :
0 1 5
1 (a) B = A (b) B = – A
(c) B = – 3A (d) B = 3A
2 12 2
(a) 0 2 5 (b) 2 14 7 28. For two matrices A and B, if AB = 0, then :
(a) A = 0 and B = 0
8 (b) A = 0 or B = 0
(c) 3 (d) [2 10 3]
(c) it is not necessary that A = 0 or B = 0
20. For any two suitable matrices A, B, the correct statement (d) all above are false
is : 29. If A and B are matrices of the same order, then which of
(a) AB 0 A 0 or B = 0 the following is skew symmetric matrices :
(b) ( A B )2 A2 2 AB B 2 A AT AT BT
(a) (b)
(c) ( AB )T BT AT 2 2
(d) AB = BA AT BT B BT
(c) (d)
21. In the following, singular matrix is : 2 2
30. For any two matrices, A, B; A + B and AB both will exist
2 3 3 2 1 2 2 3
(a) 1 3 (b) 2 3 (c) 1 0 (d) 4 6 if and only if :
(a) both are of the same order
(b) both are square matrices
2 3 4 6 1 0
22. If A 1 3 , B 2 3 , C 0 1 , then the invertible (c) both are square matrices of the same order
(d) none of these
matrice are :
(a) A and B (b) B and C (c) A and C (d) all 3 x 2 1 7 3 2 8 5
31. If , then :
4 1 19 3 5 y 1 6 10
1 a
23. If A 0 1 , then A5 is equal to : (a) x = 1, y = 9 (b) x = 15, y = 6
(c) x = 15, y = 9 (d) x = – 2, y = – 9
5 5a 1 5a
(a) 0 5 (b) 0 1
1 a
5
5 5a
(c) 0 1
(d) 0 5
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32. If A , then adj A is equal to :
1 0 39. If A 3 3 3 , then A2 is equal to :
5 5 5
3 5 0 5
(a) 1 0 (b) 1 3 (a) 2A (b) A
(c) 1/2A (d) I 3
0 5 0 1
(c) 1 3 (d) 5 3
1 0 0 0 1 1
40. If A 1 0 1 , B 0 1 0 , then :
3 4 10
33. If m n , then : 0 1 0 1 0 1
4 3 11
(a) m = 9, n = – 10 (b) m = 32, n = 1 (a) | A B | 1 (b) | A B | 1
(c) m = – 2, n = – 23 (d) m = – 2, n = 1 (c) | A B | 0 (d) | A B | 2
cos sin
34. If A T
, then AA is equal to : 0 4 1 0
sin cos 41. 2
2 1 3 2 1 equals :
0 0 1 1
(a) 0 0 (b) 1 1 3 8 1 5
(a) 9 1 (b) 10 5
1 0 0 1
(c) 0 1 (d) 1 0 3 8 3 5
(c) 10 5 (d) 10 5
35. If every row of a matrix A contains p elements and its
column contains q elements, then the order of A is : 1 0 1
(a) p p (b) q q 42. If A 0 0 0 , then A2 is equal to :
(c) p q (d) q p 1 0 1
36. If A is 3 3 square matrix, then |adj A| equal to : (a) A (b) 2A (c) 3A (d) none
(a) |A| (b) 2|A| x 3 x y 3 2
2 3 43. If zx z 3 y w 4 7 , then :
(c) | A | (d) | A |
(a) x = 3, y = 7, z = 1, w = 14
3 2 0 1 (b) x = 3, y = –5, z = –1, w = – 4
37. If 2 A B and A B 3 2 , then A equals :
3 7 (c) x = 3, y = 6, z = 2, w = 7
(d) none of these
1 1 1 2
(a) 2 3 (b) 3 1
2 2 2 2
44. If A sin 2 sec , B cos 2 tan ,
2 1 cosec 1 / 2 cot 1 / 2
(c) 3 1 (d) none of these then A + B is equal to :
1 0 1 1
38. If A, B, C are matrices of order 1 3, 3 3 and 3 1 (a) 1 1 (b) 1 1
respectively, then the order of ABC will be :
(a) 3 3 (b) 1 3 1 0 1 1
(c) 0 1 (d) 1 1
(c) 1 1 (d) 3 1
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0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 i
48. If A ,B i 0
45. If A 0 0 1, B 1 0 0 , then AB equals : 1 0
0 0 0 0 1 0
(a) AB BA (b) AB B2
1 0 0 1 0 0 (c) AB BA (d) None of these
(a) 0 1 0 (b) 0 0 0 49. If A and B are matrices of order m n and n n
0 0 1 0 0 1 respectively, then which of the following are difined ?
(a) AB , BA (b) AB , A2
0 0 0 1 0 0
(c) 0 1 0 (d) 0 1 0 (c) A2,B 2 (d) AB ,B 2
0 0 1 0 0 0
1 1 1 1
50. If A , B 1 1 , then
0 2 2 3 2 2
46. If A 0 3 , B 0 0 , then AB equals :
(a) AB 2 I (b) AB 0
0 6 0 4 (c) BA 0 (d) B 2 I
(a) 0 0 (b) 0 0
0 6 0 0
(c) 0 4 (d) 0 0
47. If A and B are matrices of order m n and n m
respectively, then the order of BT ( AT )T is :
(a) m n (b) m m
(c) n n (d) not defined
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1. (c) 2. (d) 3. (c) 4. (b) 5. (b) 6. (d) 7. (c) 8. (b) 9. (c) 10. (d)
11. (c) 12. (d) 13. (a) 14. (c) 15. (c) 16. (c) 17. (a) 18. (c) 19. (c) 20. (c)
21. (d) 22. (c) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (c) 26. (a) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (d) 30. (c)
31. (c) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (d) 36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (c) 39. (b) 40. (c)
41. (c) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (b) 45. (d) 46. (d) 47. (d) 48. (c) 49. (d) 50. (b)
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