Properties of Determinants

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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

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Let A=abcd and B=pq00. Such that AB=B and a+d=5050. Find the value of ad-bc.

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Using properties of determinants, solve the following for x :

 x+axxxx+axxxx+a=0

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The value of the following determinant would be:

 abbccabccaabcaabbc

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The value of given determinant is

x+42x2x2xx+42x2x2xx+4

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If  α, β, γ  are in A.P then, what would be the value of determinant  x-3x-4x-αx-2x-3x-βx-1x-2x-γ

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If  α,β,γ  are in A.P then, what would be the value of determinant  x3x4xαx2x3xβx1x2xγ

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Using properties of determinants, the solution for x:   | a+xaxax axa+xax axaxa+x |=0, would be :

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 a+bb+cc+ab+cc+aa+bc+aa+bb+c=

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Which of the following operation can prove,  sinαcosαcosα+δsinβcosβcosβ+δsinγcosγcosγ+δ=0

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Using properties of determinants, the value of   3aa+ba+cab3bcbacbc3c would be

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       Let   ω= 1 2 +i 3 2 .  then the value of   | 111 11 ω 2 ω 2 1 ω 2 ω 4 | is equal to –
 

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The determinant 3a-a+b-a+c-b+a3b-b+c-c+a-c+b3c is equal to

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If the area of a triangle is 4 square units and its vertices are at -2,0,0,4 and 0,k, then the value of k is equal to

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The area of a triangle with vertices at 2,-1, 0,-1 and 2,0 is

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Let A and B be 3×3 matrices with det A=2 and det B=-3. If Bt is the transpose of B, then det-2AB3A-16Bt=

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If the determinant x+1xxxx+1xxxx+1 is equal to 0, then x must be equal to

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

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If A is a 3×3 matrix with detA=1 and if B is the 3×3 matrix whose first row is twice the first row of A, whose second row is same as the second row of A and whose third row is the sum of the second row of A and the third row of A, then detB is equal to

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The value of x for which the matrix 8x04021260 is singular, is -

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If ω is a complex cube root of unity, then the value of the determinant 1ωω+1ω+11ωωω+11 is