Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices

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Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices: Overview

This topic covers concepts, such as, Symmetric and Skew-symmetric Matrices, Symmetric Matrix, Properties of Skew-Symmetric Matrices & Square Matrix as a Sum of Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices etc.

Important Questions on Symmetric and Skew-Symmetric Matrices

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Using matrices, solve the following system of equations

 4x5y11z=12

x3y+z=1

2x+3y7z=2

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Let M denote the determinant of a square matrix M. Let g:0,π2 be the function defined by gθ=fθ-1+fπ2-θ-1 where fθ=121sinθ1-sinθ1sinθ-1-sinθ1+sinπcosθ+π4tanθ-π4sinθ-π4-cosπ2loge4πcotθ+π4logeπ4tanπ
Let px be a quadratic polynomial whose roots are the maximum and minimum values of the function gθ, and p2=2-2. Then, which of the following is/are TRUE ?

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Let S=a11a12a13a21a22a23a31a32a33: aij-1,0,1, then the number of symmetric matrices with trace equals zero, is

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Let A be set of all 3×3 symmetric matrices all of whose entries are either 0 or 1. Five of these entries are 1 and four of them are 0, Then

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If A=211-102013 then A-AT is _____ matrix

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If p is a 5×5 skew-symmetric matrix with 9 entries as 1, other 9 entries as -1 and 7 entries as 0. If trp is sum of diagonal elements, then trp2-detp is equal to

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If A=-2-11-1741-x-3 is a symmetric matrix then the value of x is _____.

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If A=211-102013 then A-AT is

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If x, y are any two non-zero real numbers, aij=xj+yi,A=aijn×n and P, Q are two n×n matrices such that A=x P+y Q then

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Determinant of skew-symmetric matrix of order "three" is always

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If A=-2-11-1741-x-3 is a symmetric matrix then find the value of x.

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Let A and B be 3×3 symmetric matrices such that X=AB+BA and Y=AB-BA. Then [XYT is equal to XYT is the transpose of matrix XY.]

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Let A & B be 3×3 symmetric matrices such that  X=AB+BA and Y=AB-BA. Then (XY)T is equal to [(XY)T is the transpose of matrix XY.]

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If A and B are non-singular square matrices of even order such that AT=A, BT=-B and AB+BA=O

(where O is a null matrix ), then

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A is a 3×3 matrix with entries from the set -1,0,1. Then the probability that A is neither symmetric nor skew-symmetric is

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If A is a skew symmetric matrix of order 2 and B,C are matrices 1429, 9-4-2   1, then A3BC+A5B2C2+A7B3C3+..A2017B1009C1009 is

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If A is skew symmetric matrix such that A2-I=0 then order of A is :-

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If A is skew symmetric matrix such that A2-I=0 then order of A is :-

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Let f(x)=lnx+x2+1, then the value of determinant fsin2017πfsinπ6fexfcos2π3fcos2017π2ftanπ3f-exfcot5π6f(0) is

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If the matrix A is both symmetric and skew symmetric, then