Properties of Determinants
Properties of Determinants: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as Properties of Determinants, Equality of Determinant and Its Transpose, Properties of Determinants under Elementary Transformations, Value of a Determinant Having Identical Rows/Columns, etc.
Important Questions on Properties of Determinants
Let and . Such that and . Find the value of .

Using properties of determinants, solve the following for :

The value of the following determinant would be:

The value of given determinant is

If are in A.P then, what would be the value of determinant

If are in A.P then, what would be the value of determinant

Using properties of determinants, the solution for x: would be :


Which of the following operation can prove,

Using properties of determinants, the value of would be

Let then the value of is equal to –

The determinant is equal to

If the area of a triangle is square units and its vertices are at and , then the value of is equal to

The area of a triangle with vertices at and is

Let and be matrices with det and det If is the transpose of then

If the determinant is equal to 0, then must be equal to

The area of a triangle whose vertices are at the points $(3,2),(-2,-3)$ and $(-1,-8)$ is

If is a matrix with and if is the matrix whose first row is twice the first row of , whose second row is same as the second row of and whose third row is the sum of the second row of and the third row of , then is equal to

The value of for which the matrix is singular, is -

If is a complex cube root of unity, then the value of the determinant is
